Crossword clues for romaic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Romaic \Ro*ma"ic\, a. [NGr. ????: cf. F. roma["i]que. See Roman.] Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language. -- n. The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic.
Note: The Greeks at the time of the capture of Constantinople
were proud of being "Romai^oi, or Romans . . . Hence
the term Romaic was the name given to the popular
language. . . . The Greek language is now spoken of as
the Hellenic language.
--Encyc. Brit.
WordNet
adj. relating to modern Greece or its inhabitants or its language
n. the modern Greek vernacular [syn: Demotic]
Usage examples of "romaic".
It had been supposed some of the papers might be in the Arabian, Romaic, or Turkish language, and the interpreter of the House was in attendance.
Robin is an idealized bandit, reiver, or Klepht, as in modern Romaic ballads, and his adventures are precisely such as popular fancy everywhere attaches to such popular heroes.
Tigris, the Euphrates, and the Ganges pass beneath the Ocean to cross the regions towards which we are traveling, and then they empty into the Persian Gulf, whereas the Nile follows a more tortuous path through the antediluvian lands, enters the Ocean, resumes its course in the lower southern regions, and more precisely in the land of Egypt, emptying into the Romaic Gulf, which would be what the Latins first call Mediterranean and then Hellespont.
English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, and Romaic to those who best understood these languages.
Bohemian translation, two Danish, two Dutch, two French, nine German, three Hungarian, three Italian, two Polish, one Romaic, one Rumanian, four Russian and three Spanish translations.
This incident is stereotyped in the ballads and occurs in an example in the Romaic.
Romaic, Arnaout, Turkish, Italian, and English were all exercised, in various conceits, upon the unfortunate Mussulman.
The first three remained constantly in a small waiting-room, ready to obey the summons of a small golden bell, or to receive the orders of the Romaic slave, who knew just enough French to be able to transmit her mistress’.