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.

The results of applying these criteria sometimes reveal that elements that have traditionally been called " clitics " actually have the status of affixes ( e. g. the Romance pronominal clitics discussed below ).

Occitan (; ; ), known also as Lenga d ' òc by its native speakers (; ), is a Romance language spoken in southern France, Italy's Occitan Valleys, Monaco, and Spain's Val d ' Aran: the regions sometimes known unofficially as Occitania.

Among the Romance languages the vocative was preserved in Romanian: it is also visible sometimes, in languages such as Catalan or Portuguese which employ the personal article but drop it in front of vocative forms.

Vulgar Latin is sometimes also called colloquial Latin, or Common Romance ( particularly in the late stage ).

Some Romance languages have familiar forms derived from the Latin singular tu and respectful forms derived from Latin plural vos, sometimes via a circuitous route.

The middle movements are expressive and lyrical, sometimes called “ Romance ” and usually constructed according to the well known Liedform ( ABA, ABA ' or AA ' B ).

The rebellion is portrayed in the opening chapters of Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which portrays the Zhang brothers as sorcerors, having been provided the Taiping Jing from the " old immortal spirit from the southern lands " ( sometimes identified as Zhuangzi ).

Romance novels are sometimes referred to as " smut " or female pornography, and are the most popular form of modern erotica for women.

Raynouard is sometimes called the founder of Romance linguistics, although his work was marked by a fundamental misconception: he believed that the Romance languages had derived from a common post-Latin language, which he called le roman, and not directly from Latin, as is in fact the case.

It is believed that they diverged from the Romanians in the 7th to 9th century, and currently speak the Aromanian language and Megleno-Romanian language, both of which are Eastern Romance languages, like Romanian, and are sometimes considered by traditional Romanian linguists to be dialects of Romanian.

The western continuum of Romance languages, which comprises, from West to East: In Portugal, Portuguese ; In Spain, Galician, Leonese or Asturian, Castilian or Spanish, Aragonese and Catalan or Valencian ; In France, Occitan, Franco-Provençal and standard French ; in Italy, Italian and in Switzerland, Romansh as well as other languages with fewer speakers, is sometimes presented as another example, although the major languages in this group have had separate standards for longer than the languages in the continental West Germanic group, and are not commonly classified as dialects of a common language.

However certain languages, especially Romance languages, also commonly use a ' modernized ' word ( e. g. César in French ) for the name, both referring to the Roman cognomen and modern use as a first name, and even to render the title Caesar, sometimes again extended to the derived imperial titles above.

Some assert that Sicilian represents the oldest Romance language derived from Vulgar Latin ( Privitera, 2004 ), but this is not a widely-held view amongst linguists, and is sometimes strongly criticized ( 2004, p. 151 ).

The preterites ( past perfectives ) of the Romance languages, which are sometimes called ' aorist ', are an independent development.

Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that after Top Gun, Scott " found his commercial niche as a brash, flashy, sometimes vulgar action painter on celluloid ", citing Beverly Hills Cop II, Days of Thunder, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, and The Fan as examples.

The La Spezia – Rimini Line ( sometimes also referred to as the Massa – Senigallia Line ), in the linguistics of the Romance languages, is a line that demarcates a number of important isoglosses that distinguish Romance languages south and east of the line from Romance languages north and west of it.

Joan Coromines i Vigneaux () ( sometimes also referred to as Joan Corominas ; Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 1905 — Pineda de Mar, Catalonia, Spain, 1997 ) was a linguist who made important contributions to the study of Catalan, Spanish and other Romance languages.

The Italian Jewish rite is sometimes called minhag ha-lo ' azim, and linguists use lo ' ez as a description of words of Romance origin in Yiddish.

The ancient Raetic language is not one of the modern Romance languages of the same Alpine region, known as Rhaeto-Romanic — although both are sometimes referred to as " Rhaetian ".

Whereas Latin had no definite or indefinite articles, medieval writers sometimes used forms of unus as an indefinite article, and forms of ille ( reflecting usage in the Romance languages ) as a definite article or even quidam ( meaning " a certain one / thing " in Classical Latin ) as something like an article.

* Romanian language ( sometimes called Daco-Romanian to distinguish it from the rest of the Eastern Romance languages )

In German-speaking countries he is referred to as " Der Ewige Jude " ( the immortal, or eternal, Jew ), while in Romance-speaking countries he is known as " Le Juif Errant " ( the Wandering Jew ) and " L ' Ebreo Errante "; the English form, probably because it is derived from the French, has followed the Romance.

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.

" Due to his appearance in numerous romantic films, Khan has developed a " romantic lover boy " image and is referred to as the " King of Romance " by media outlets.

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.

In a wider sense, the phrase refers to any verb form whose grammatical object is a reflexive pronoun, regardless of semantics ; such verbs are also referred to as pronominal verbs, especially in grammars of the Romance languages.

" Despite the popularity of this popular meaning of Romance, other works are still, occasionally, referred to as romances because of their uses of other elements descended from the medieval romance, or from the Romantic movement: larger-than-life heroes and heroines, drama and adventure, marvels that may become fantastic, themes of honor and loyalty, or fairy-tale-like stories and story settings.

In Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Qiao was the father of the two Qiao sisters, and was referred to as " Qiao Guolao " ( 喬國老 ; literally: " State Elder Qiao ").

The languages conventionally referred to as Italian dialects are Romance sister languages of Italian, not variants of Italian, which are commonly and properly called italiano regionale (' regional Italian ').

The player takes on the role of a historical figure from the book Romance of the Three Kingdoms, referred to as an officer, to achieve this goal.