Romance languages

plural noun

1. romance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Romance languages¹

First recorded in 1770–80

Example Sentences

At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she studied Romance languages and sang opera.

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It had been planning for a few years to offer Yiddish, which has several dialects composed mostly of Hebrew and German, along with some words from Polish, Russian, and other Slavic and Romance languages.

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In Romance languages, including Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese, the debate over gender-neutral terminology can be particularly fierce because all grammar is gendered.

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Like other Romance languages, Spanish divides most endings of nouns into masculine o’s or feminine a’s.

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Like other Romance languages, Spanish divides endings of nouns into masculine “o’s” or feminine “a’s”.

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