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One of the great languages
Answer for the clue "One of the great languages ", 7 letters:
romanic
Alternative clues for the word romanic
Word definitions for romanic in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to Rome or the Roman people," 1708, originally in reference to languages descended from Latin, from Latin Romanicus , from Romanus "Roman" (see Roman ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Romanic \Ro*man"ic\, a. [L. Romanicus. See Romance , n.] Of or pertaining to Rome or its people. Of or pertaining to any or all of the various languages which, during the Middle Ages, sprung out of the old Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, ...
Usage examples of romanic.
There have, as you know, been several schools of thought upon the Romanic Arts.
Climatic effects will not account for the phenomenon, because we see that the peasantry of the mountains of Spain and the South of France as ignorant as these people, and dwellers in a still more enervating atmosphere-are very fertile in musical composition, and their songs are to the Romanic languages what the Scotch and Irish ballads are to the English.
Cayce has looked at these sites, but, aside from being incomprehensible, the text, which comes up on non-kanji screens as a frantic-looking slaw of Romanic symbols, reminds her too much of the archaic cartoon convention for swearing.
At last came a morning when the wireless telegraph operator aboard picked up a signal from shore and announced that the Romanic was less than a hundred miles from Boston light.