roman

See also: róman, román, român, Roman, and Rómán

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rōmən, IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊmən/
  • Hyphenation: ro‧man

Adjective

roman (not comparable)

  1. (of type, typography) Upright, as opposed to italic.
  2. (of text, computing) Of or related to the Latin alphabet.

Antonyms

Derived terms

See also

Roman type on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams


Azerbaijani

Etymology

Likely from Russian рома́н (román), ultimately from French roman.

Noun

roman

  1. novel

Declension


Catalan

Verb

roman

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of romandre
  2. second-person singular imperative form of romandre

Crimean Tatar

Noun

roman

  1. novel, epic
  2. Romanian

Declension

Synonyms


Danish

Noun

roman c (singular definite romanen, plural indefinite romaner)

  1. novel (work of fiction)

Declension

References


Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French roman.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /roːˈmɑn/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ro‧man

Noun

roman m (plural romans, diminutive romannetje n)

  1. novel (work of fiction)

Derived terms


French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɔ.mɑ̃/
  • (file)

Etymology 1

In the 19th century, borrowed from Latin romanus.[1] or from the French noun below [2], originally from Old French romanz (common language).

Adjective

roman (feminine singular romane, masculine plural romans, feminine plural romanes)

  1. Romance (in linguistics)
  2. romanesque (in history of art)

See also

Etymology 2

From Old French romanz (common language (as opposed to Latin)), from Vulgar Latin romanicē (in the way of the Romans (as opposed to the Franks)), from Latin rōmānicus < rōmānus.[3]. The meaning “common language” changed into “book in common language” and then into “adventure novel”.[1] See also romance, of the same ultimate origin but borrowed through Spanish.

Noun

roman m (plural romans)

  1. novel (work of fiction)
  2. (colloquial) A very long text. Il nous écrit un roman encore. See pavé.
Derived terms

References

  1. Picoche, Jacqueline; Jean-Claude Rolland (2009), “Annexe IV, roman”, in Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert
  2. http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/roman
  3. Dauzat, Albert; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964), roman”, in Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse

Further reading


Interlingue

Adjective

roman

  1. Roman

Noun

roman (plural romanes)

  1. novel

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French roman

Noun

roman m (definite singular romanen, indefinite plural romaner, definite plural romanene)

  1. a novel (work of fiction)

Derived terms

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French roman

Noun

roman m (definite singular romanen, indefinite plural romanar, definite plural romanane)

  1. a novel (work of fiction)

Derived terms

References


Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /roˈman/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French roman (novel, epic), from Old French romanz.

Noun

roman n (plural romane)

  1. novel, epic (work of fiction)
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French roman (a medieval romance).

Noun

roman n (plural romane)

  1. Medieval romance
Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin rōmānus. Doublet of român (Romanian) and rumân, which was inherited.

Adjective

roman m or n (feminine singular romană, masculine plural romani, feminine and neuter plural romane)

  1. Roman
Declension

Noun

roman m (plural romani, feminine equivalent romană)

  1. Roman
Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French roman.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rǒmaːn/
  • Hyphenation: ro‧man

Noun

ròmān m (Cyrillic spelling ро̀ма̄н)

  1. novel (work of fiction)

Declension

References

  • roman” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɔˈmáːn/
  • Tonal orthography: romȃn

Noun

román m inan (genitive romána, nominative plural románi)

  1. novel (work of fiction)

Declension


Swedish

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

roman c

  1. novel (work of fiction)

Declension

Declension of roman 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative roman romanen romaner romanerna
Genitive romans romanens romaners romanernas
  • detektivroman

See also


Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French roman.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾomán/

Noun

roman (definite accusative romanı, plural romanlar)

  1. novel (work of fiction)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative roman
Definite accusative romanı
Singular Plural
Nominative roman romanlar
Definite accusative romanı romanları
Dative romana romanlara
Locative romanda romanlarda
Ablative romandan romanlardan
Genitive romanın romanların
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular romanım romanlarım
2nd singular romanın romanların
3rd singular romanı romanları
1st plural romanımız romanlarımız
2nd plural romanınız romanlarınız
3rd plural romanları romanları
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular romanım romanlarım
2nd singular romansın romanlarsın
3rd singular roman
romandır
romanlar
romanlardır
1st plural romanız romanlarız
2nd plural romansınız romanlarsınız
3rd plural romanlar romanlardır
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