romanzo

See also: romanzó and romanzò

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /roˈman.d͡zo/, /roˈman.t͡so/[1]
  • Rhymes: -andzo, -antso
  • Hyphenation: ro‧màn‧zo

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French romanz, which stems from the Latin expression romanice loqui (“to speak in the Roman way”).[2] Cognate with English romance (noun).

Adjective

romanzo (feminine romanza, masculine plural romanzi, feminine plural romanze)

  1. (linguistics) Romance

Noun

romanzo m (plural romanzi)

  1. novel
  2. (figurative, by extension) literature
    il romanzo italiano del Novecento
    Italian literature of the 20th century
  3. romance (intimate relationship)
  4. romance (language)
  5. romanticized (idea, event, etc.)
Descendants
  • → Greek: ρομάντζο (romántzo)

Verb

romanzo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of romanzare

Further reading

References
  1. romanzo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  2. Migliorini, Bruno with Aldo Duro (1950) “romanzo”, in Prontuario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Paravia

Spanish

Verb

romanzo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of romanzar
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