| 词汇 | romance |
| 词源 | romance. Romance derives from the Latin Romanice scribere, “to write in the Roman vernacular,” as distinguished from liter- ary Latin. The Romance languages, French, Italian, Spanish, etc., are derived from this vernacular Latin. The old French ad- verb romany, for Romanice, became a noun meaning a tale told in verse about some hero of chivalry, this becoming romance in English. |
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