Romaic
Americannoun
adjective
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Romaic
1800–10; < Greek Rhōmaïkós Roman, equivalent to Rhōma ( îos ) Roman + -ikos -ic
Example Sentences
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They knew the dances of all nations, could play any thing that was ever invented, whether game or instrument, and talked in every tongue of Europe, from Romaic to Swedish.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various
Romaic, ro-mā′ik, n. modern Greek, the language of the descendants of the Eastern Romans: Hellenic.—adj. pertaining to the foregoing.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
The characters are in cramped Romaic Greek, the paper is yellow, the ink faded with age.
From Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard
One of these plays has been translated into German, and thus made accessible to those of the readers of that language whose studies have not reached into the musical Romaic.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various
Cont. are identical with those of the Second Edition; but the Fac Simile of the Romaic Letter is not mentioned in the Table of Cont. nor inserted in the volume.
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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