for non-idiomatic uses see groß and Liebe · the love of one’s life; the one great love or romance (an idealised form of romantic love, often thought to happen at most once in a lifetime) · first love (a person’s most fundamental interest)
köken: Borrowed from Old Occitan romans, or Old French romanz, from Vulgar Latin *romanĭce, compare Medieval Latin rōmānice, ultimately from Latin rōmānicus < rōmānus. Cognates include Old French romanz, whence the modern French noun roman (“novel”).
novel (work of prose fiction) · romance; love affair
çekim: çoğul romances
köken: Borrowed from Old Occitan romans, from Medieval Latin, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in a Roman manner”), from Latin rōmānicus (“Roman”, adjective), from rōmānus (“Roman”, noun), from Rōma (“Rome”).
λατινογενείς γλώσσες που εξελίχθηκαν διαφορετικά ανάλογα με το προϋπάρχον γλωσσολογικό υπόστρωμα· ήταν το πρώτο στάδιο προς τα σημερινά ιταλικά, γαλλικά, ισπανικά, πορτογαλικά, καταλανικά, οξιτανικά, ρουμανικά, κ.α.
amour, love affair, romance, liaison · romance novel (story or novel dealing with idealized love, usually with little artistic value) · Ancient Greek novel, romaunt
köken: Borrowed from French romance, from Spanish romance, itself probably a borrowing from either Old French romanz or Old Occitan romans, from Vulgar Latin rōmānicē, from Latin rōmānicus. Doublet of romansz.
köken: From German Romanze, from French romance, from Old French romanz (“narrative verse”) (originally, "in the vernacular language"), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, from Latin rōmānicus (“of or in the Roman style”), from rōmānus (“Roman”).
romance (an adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances)
çekim: çoğul romanços
köken: Inherited from Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman manner”), adverbial form of rōmānicus (“Roman”).
aile: romancer, romancista, romanço
Etimoloji
Sino-Vietnamese word from 浪漫, composed of 浪 (“indulgent”) and 漫 (“indulgent”). The "romantic" sense must have come from an orthographic borrowing from Japanese 浪(ろう)漫(まん) (rōman), given that its pronunciation is the only plausible reflex that sounds similar to its European etymon; compare Mandarin 浪漫 (làngmàn), Cantonese 浪漫 (long6 maan6), and Korean 낭만(浪漫) (nangman). It has been claimed that…