romanzo
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /roˈman.d͡zo/[1]
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).
Related terms
- Roma
- romantico
- romanza
- romanzaccio
- romanzare
- romanzesco
- romanzetto
- romanziere
- romanzone
Further reading
romanzo on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
References
- romanzo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- Migliorini, Bruno; Aldo Duro (1950), “romanzo”, in Prontuario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Paravia
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