It eventually became used for the descendant languages of Latin ( the Romance languages ) and then for most of the other languages of Europe.

The German dialects of South Tyrol have been influenced by local Romance languages, in particular with many loan words from Italian, and Ladin.

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

Though geographically surrounded by Indo-European Romance languages, Basque is classified as a language isolate.

Through the long contact with Romance languages, Basque adopted a sizable number of Romance words.

Historically, Latin or Romance languages have been the official languages in this region.

Cohabitation with the Scandinavians resulted in a significant grammatical simplification and lexical enrichment of the Anglo-Frisian core of English ; the later Norman occupation led to the grafting onto that Germanic core of a more elaborate layer of words from the Romance branch of the European languages.

* European Central Bank in some Romance languages ( e. g., Banco Central Europeo )

In turn, the classical languages continued, Latin evolved into the Romance languages and Ancient Greek into Modern Greek and its dialects.

The word horologia ( from the Greek ὡρα, hour, and λέγειν, to tell ) was used to describe all these devices, but the use of this word ( still used in several Romance languages ) for all timekeepers conceals from us the true nature of the mechanisms.

In the Romance languages, the articles and direct and indirect object personal pronoun forms are clitics.

According to most criteria, in fact, the pronominal clitics in most of the Romance languages have already developed into affixes.

" Ballista " is still the root word for crossbow in Romance languages such as Italian ( balestra ).

Linguistic map representing a Tree model of the Romance languages based on the comparative method.

For example, Spanish and French both come from Latin and therefore belong to the same family, the Romance languages.

In publications of 1647 and 1654, Marcus van Boxhorn first described a rigid methodology for historical linguistic comparisons and proposed the existence of an Indo-European proto-language ( which he called " Scythian ") unrelated to Hebrew, but ancestral to Germanic, Greek, Romance, Persian, Sanskrit, Slavic, Celtic and Baltic languages.

This more precise usage enables one to distinguish between varieties of a language, such as the French spoken in Nice, France, and local languages distinct from the superordinate language, e. g. Nissart, the traditional native Romance language of Nice, known in French as Niçard.

This point of view sees the modern Romance languages as dialects of Latin, modern Greek as a dialect of Ancient Greek, Tok Pisin as a dialect of English, and Scandinavian languages as dialects of Old Norse.

They are heard of in the time of Alexander, when some of the king's biographers make mention of Amazon Queen Thalestris visiting him and becoming a mother by him ( the story is known from the Alexander Romance ).

Aquila is the Latin and Romance language word for eagle and may also refer to:

The current Romance language spoken, Galego, has many words of Celtic origin and is the ancestor of the Portuguese language used mainly in Brazil and Portugal.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

Corsican ( corsu or lingua corsa ) is an Italo-Dalmatian Romance language spoken and written on the islands of Corsica ( France ) and northern Sardinia ( Italy ).

In one opinion, this pattern is clearly present among the modern Romance tongues, with Italian and Spanish having a high degree of mutual comprehensibility, which neither language shares with French, despite some claiming that both languages are genetically closer to French than to each other: In fact, French-Italian and French-Spanish relative mutual incomprehensibility is due to French having undergone more rapid and more pervasive phonological change than have Spanish and Italian, not to real or imagined distance in genetic relationship.

The phonemic inventory is essentially Slavic, as is much of the semantics, while the vocabulary derives primarily from the Romance languages, with a lesser contribution from the Germanic languages and minor contributions from Slavic languages and Greek.

In all Romance languages, the name of the Easter festival is derived from the Latin Pascha.

This family is divided into a number of branches, including Romance, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, Albanian and Greek.

Abbott's best-known work is his 1884 novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions which describes a two-dimensional world and explores the nature of dimensions.

The etymology of fiddle is uncertain: the Germanic fiddle may derive from the same early Romance word as does violin, or it may be natively Germanic .< ref >

** French language, a Romance language originating in what is now northern France

In words of Romance origin, ⟨ g ⟩ is usually soft before ⟨ e ⟩, ⟨ i ⟩, and ⟨ y ⟩ and hard otherwise, although it is soft in algae, gaol, and an alternate pronunciation of vegan.

The war is fought across four dimensions and whole sections of history are blocked off by either side and it is also suggested that events cross into different universes ( such as the events of Dead Romance ).

** Madame LaMotte in The Romance of the Forest – naively assumes that her husband is having an affair with Adeline.

** Theodore in The Romance of the Forest – saves Adeline multiple times, is virtuous, courageous and brave, self-sacrificial

** The Marquis in The Romance of the Forest – attempts to get with Adeline even though he is already married, attempts to rape Adeline, blackmails Monsieur LaMotte.

The major part of the action in the Romance of the Forest is set in an abandoned and ruined abbey and the building itself served as a moral lesson, as well as a major setting for and mirror of the action in the novel.

Between the 11th century and 15th centuries medieval writers often used the word shivalry, in meanings that changed over time, generally moving from the concrete meaning of " status or fee associated with military follower owning a war horse " towards the moral ideal of the Christian warrior ethos propagated in the Romance genre which became popular by the 12th century, and the ideal of courtly love propagated in the contemporary Minnesang and related genres.

The Nazis declared that the Nordics, ( nowadays referred to as the Germanic peoples ), were the true Aryans because they were less racially mixed with " non-native " Indo-European peoples than other people of what were then called the Aryan peoples ( now generally called the Indo-European peoples ), such as the Slavic peoples, the Romance peoples and the Indo-Iranian peoples.

For example, in the Romance languages, the original Latin short vowels and have generally become diphthongs when stressed.

The population west of the Aare generally spoke a Romance language, while those to the east spoke a Germanic language.

He crossed the sea on Michaelmas Day 1322 ; had traversed by way of Turkey ( Asia Minor ), Armenia the Little ( Cilicia ) and the Great, Tartary, Persia, Syria, Arabia, Egypt upper and lower, Libya, great part of Ethiopia, Chaldea, Amazonia, India the Less, the Greater and the Middle, and many countries about India ; had often been to Jerusalem, and had written in Romance as more generally understood than Latin.

Their rediscovery in the 20th century by Hebrew scholar Samuel Miklos Stern and Arabist Emilio García Gómez is generally thought to have cast new light on the evolution of Romance languages.

The Eastern Romance languages developed from the Proto-Romanian language, which in turn developed from the Vulgar Latin spoken in a region of the Balkans which has not yet been exactly determined, but is generally agreed to have been a region north of the Jireček Line.

This is similar to how gender is used in many Germanic and Romance languages, except that instead of the usual two or three, there are around eighteen different noun classes, most of them rather only generally defined.

His films were generally more popular with audiences than critics and includedThe Hunger ( 1983 ), Top Gun ( 1986 ), Beverly Hills Cop II ( 1987 ), Days of Thunder ( 1990 ), The Last Boy Scout ( 1991 ), True Romance ( 1993 ), Crimson Tide ( 1995 ), Enemy of the State ( 1998 ), Spy Game ( 2001 ), Déjà Vu ( 2006 ), The Taking of Pelham 123 ( 2009 ) and Unstoppable ( 2010 ).

For example, in German the first letter of all nouns is capitalized, while in Romance languages the names of days of the week, months of the year, and adjectives of nationality, religion and so on generally begin with a lower-case letter.

In the eastern parts of the Middle East, it was generally applied to the Persians, while in al-Andalus it referred to speakers of Romance languages-becoming " Aljamiado " in Spanish in reference to Arabic-script writing of those languages-and in West Africa, Ajami similarly refers to Ajami script, or the writing of local languages such as Hausa and Fulani in the Arabic alphabet.

Her tale is also told in John Gower's Confessio Amantis, and both are similar to the verse Romance Emaré, and the cycle is generally known as the " Constance " cycle.

The grasshopper and the ant are generally depicted as women because both words for the insects are of the feminine gender in most Romance languages.

Some classifications include the Italo-Dalmatian languages ; when Italian is classified as Western Romance, Dalmatian generally remains in Eastern.

The Jews of Spain preserve, but do not generally speak, Ladino, a Romance language derived mainly from Old Castilian ( Spanish ) and Hebrew.

( Some classifications include central and southern Italian ; the resulting clade is generally called Italo-Western Romance.