ROMANCE LANGUAGE

Pronunciation (US):

• ROMANCE LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun ROMANCE LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. the group of languages derived from Latin

  Familiarity information: ROMANCE LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

• ROMANCE LANGUAGE (noun)

Meaning:

The group of languages derived from Latin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Latinian language; Romance language; Romance

Hypernyms ("Romance language" is a kind of...):

Latin (any dialect of the language of ancient Rome)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Romance language"):

Haitian Creole (a creole language spoken by most Haitians; based on French and various African languages)

Italian (the Romance language spoken in Italy)

French (the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France)

Portuguese (the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil)

Galician (a language spoken in Galicia in northwestern Spain; it is between Portuguese and Spanish but closer to Portuguese; sometimes considered a Portuguese or Spanish dialect)

Spanish (the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain)

Catalan (the Romance language spoken in Catalonia in eastern Spain (related to Spanish and Occitan))

Rhaeto-Romance; Rhaeto-Romanic (Romance dialects spoken in parts of southeastern Switzerland and northern Italy and the Tyrol)

Romanian; Rumanian (an eastern Romance language spoken in Romania)