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5-letter words (4 found)

MANOR,MARON,NORMA,ROMAN,

4-letter words (10 found)

MANO,MOAN,MONA,MORA,MORN,NOMA,NORM,ROAM,ROAN,ROMA,

3-letter words (16 found)

ARM,MAN,MAR,MNA,MOA,MON,MOR,NAM,NOM,NOR,OAR,OMA,ORA,RAM,RAN,ROM,

2-letter words (10 found)

AM,AN,AR,MA,MO,NA,NO,OM,ON,OR,

You can make 40 words from roman according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of roman

roman

English

Alternative forms

  • Roman

Etymology

From Roman.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: rōmən, IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊmən/
  • Rhymes: -əʊmən
  • Homophones: roamin' (some accents), Roman
  • Hyphenation: ro‧man

Adjective

roman (not comparable)

  1. (of type, typography) Upright, as opposed to italic.
    Antonyms: italic, italicised, italicized, oblique, slanted, sloped
  2. (of text, typography, computing) Of or related to the Latin alphabet or roman numerals.
    Coordinate terms: Arabic, arabic

Derived terms

  • roman font

Noun

roman (uncountable)

  1. (typography) One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.
  2. (chiefly American typesetting; uncommon outside that) Ellipsis of roman numeral.
    Coordinate term: arabic
  3. (archaic) A novel.
    • 2014, "Novel and Romance: Etymologies". Heyworth, Gregory; Logan, Peter Melville (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Novel, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 942. →ISBN
      Samuel Johnson, writing in his Dictionary of the English Language (1755), [defined] "novel [as] a small tale, generally of love." To modern sensibilities, Johnson's novel resembles more closely the novella in dimension and the romance in substance. [...] [T]he term romance, or roman, once interchangeable with novel in English, retains the meaning of novel in Germany, France, Russia, and most of Europe, while in the anglophone world it has been demoted to frivolity.

Derived terms

  • Times New Roman (proprietary)

Translations

See also

Roman type on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

  • roman à tiroirs

Anagrams

  • Armon, Manor, Maron, Moran, Narom, Nor Am, Nor-Am, NorAm, Norma, manor, moran, morna, norma

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian рома́н (román), ultimately from French roman.

Pronunciation

Noun

roman (definite accusative romanı, plural romanlar)

  1. A novel.

Declension

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ruˈman]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [roˈman]

Verb

roman

  1. inflection of romandre:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Crimean Tatar

Noun

roman (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

  1. A novel, epic
  2. The Romanian language.
    Synonyms: rоmen, rumın

Declension

Danish

Noun

roman c (singular definite romanen, plural indefinite romaner)

  1. A novel (work of fiction).

Declension

References

  • “roman” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French roman.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /roːˈmɑn/
  • Hyphenation: ro‧man

Noun

roman m (plural romans, diminutive romannetje n)

  1. a novel (work of fiction)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: roman
  • → Malay: roman
    • Indonesian: roman

Further reading

  • “roman” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɔ.mɑ̃/
  • Homophone: romans

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin romanusor derived from the French noun below, itself from Old French romanz (“common language”).

Adjective

roman (feminine romane, masculine plural romans, feminine plural romanes)

  1. (linguistics) Romance
  2. (art) romanesque
Derived terms
  • langue romane

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French romanz (“common language (as opposed to Latin)”), from Vulgar Latin romanicē (“in the way of the Romans (as opposed to the Franks)”), from Latin rōmānicus, from Latin rōmānus. The meaning “common language” changed into “book in common language” and then into “adventure novel”. See also romance, of the same ultimate origin but borrowed through Spanish.

Noun

roman m (plural romans)

  1. a novel (work of fiction)
  2. (colloquial) a very long text. (see pavé)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants

References

Further reading

  • “roman” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
  • “roman”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Adjective

roman

  1. Roman

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈroman/ [ˈro.man]
  • Rhymes: -oman
  • Syllabification: ro‧man

Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay roman, from Dutch roman.

Noun

roman (plural roman-roman)

  1. (literature) novel: a work of prose fiction, longer than a novella
    Synonym: novel
  2. (colloquial) apocopic form of romansa (“love story”)

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Inherited from Malay roman. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

roman (plural roman-roman)

  1. exeternal appearance
  2. feature
    roman muka bumi ― feature of earth surface

Etymology 3

Inherited from Malay roman (“rice-straw”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

roman (plural roman-roman)

  1. chaff of rice

Etymology 4

Borrowed from English roman.

Adjective

roman (comparative lebih roman, superlative paling roman)

  1. (typography) roman

Noun

roman (plural roman-roman)

  1. (typography) roman

Etymology 5

From Elnama.

Verb

roman

  1. to cover the parts of the corpse's face that have gaps or holes (eyes, nose, mouth and ears) when bathing, using all ten fingers, done by only one person (usually the deceased's paternal aunt), so that no water gets in.

Further reading

  • “roman” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

roman

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ロマン

Malay

Etymology

From Dutch roman, from French roman, from Old French romanz (“common language (as opposed to Latin)”), from Vulgar Latin romanicē (“in the way of the Romans (as opposed to the Franks)”), from Latin rōmānicus < rōmānus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈro.man/
  • Hyphenation: ro‧man

Noun

roman (plural roman-roman)

  1. (obsolete) a novel, story written in long prose
    Synonym: novel

Descendants

  • Indonesian: roman

Further reading

  • “roman” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French roman.

Pronunciation

Noun

roman m (definite singular romanen, indefinite plural romaner, definite plural romanene)

  1. A novel (work of fiction).

Derived terms

References

  • “roman” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French roman.

Noun

roman m (definite singular romanen, indefinite plural romanar, definite plural romanane)

  1. A novel (work of fiction).

Derived terms

  • krimroman

References

  • “roman” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /roˈman/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French roman (“novel, epic”), from Old French romanz.

Noun

roman n (plural romane)

  1. novel, epic (work of fiction)
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French roman (“a medieval romance”).

Noun

roman n (plural romane)

  1. Medieval romance
Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin rōmānus. Doublet of român (“Romanian”), rumân, and aromân (“Aromanian”), which was inherited. By surface analysis, Roma +‎ -an.

Adjective

roman m or n (feminine singular romană, masculine plural romani, feminine and neuter plural romane)

  1. Roman
Declension

Noun

roman m (plural romani, feminine equivalent romană)

  1. Roman
Declension
Related terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French roman.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rǒmaːn/
  • Hyphenation: ro‧man

Noun

ròmān m (Cyrillic spelling ро̀ма̄н)

  1. A novel (work of fiction).

Declension

References

  • “roman”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɔmáːn/

Noun

romȃn m inan

  1. A novel (work of fiction).

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish romaner, from French roman. Related to romans (“romance”).

Pronunciation

Noun

roman c

  1. A novel (longer work of fiction)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

  • kortroman (“novella, short novel”)
  • novell (“short story”)
  • romans
  • romantik
  • romantisk

References

  • roman in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • roman in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • roman in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish رومان, from French roman.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾomɑn/

Noun

roman (definite accusative romanı, plural romanlar)

  1. A novel (work of fiction).

Declension

Derived terms

  • çizgi roman

Source: wiktionary.org