Noun: romantic
| Singular | romantic |
| Plural | romantics |
Sample Sentences
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Oh, flowers! You're such a romantic.
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Kaldor is an interesting lyricist, and it is easy to identify with her imagery. She's also an unabashed romantic of the most extreme kind, with lines like "For we can talk without speaking/we can see without light/I'll never leave you...." [1985 December 14, Maida Tilchen, Gay Community News, volume 13, number 22, page 8:]
Nouns inflected like romantic
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin Rōma
3. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
4. Proto-Italic *-nos
5. Proto-Italic *-ānos
6. Latin -ānus
7. Latin Rōmānus
8. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
9. Proto-Italic *-ikos
10. Latin -icus
11. Latin rōmānicus
12. Latin -ē
13. Vulgar Latin rōmānicē
14. Old French romanz
15. Old French romauntder.
16. English romant
17. ▲
18. Latin -icuslbor.
19. Old French -iquebor.
20. Middle English -ik
21. English -ic
22. English romantic
23. From romant + -ic, or borrowed from Late Latin romanticus (“(of a poem) having qualities of a romance”). Compare French romantique, which is borrowed from English. Also compare Spanish romántico, Portuguese romântico, Italian romantico, Dutch romantisch, and German romantisch and Romantiker (“a composer of Romantic music”), all of which are borrowed from English or French. See: French Nouns '
romantique', Portuguese Nouns '
romântico', Italian Nouns '
romantico'.
Verbs referencing "romantic"
Italian Nouns
romantico, Finnish Nouns
romantikko, Finnish Nouns
romantiikka.