## Meanings
1. A romantic relationship or love affair between two people.
2. A story about love.
3. A feeling of excitement, mystery, and adventure.
4. To try to win someone's love; to court.
5. Relating to the languages that developed from Latin, such as French and Spanish.

## Examples
- Their summer romance turned into a lifelong marriage.
- She loves reading historical romances on holiday.
- There is a certain romance about travelling by train across Europe.
- He romanced her with flowers and long letters.
- Italian and Portuguese are both Romance languages.

## Synonyms
- solicit
- woo

## Antonyms
- antiromance
- nonromance
- platonic

## Derived Forms
- bromance
- crimance
- cyberromance
- erom
- fauxmance
- outromance
- photo-romance
- romaction
- romanceable
- romanceful
- romancelandia
- romanceless

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: romauns
- Root: romanz
- Root: rōmānicē
- Root: rōmānicus

## Etymology
From Middle English romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman language”, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus (“roman”, adjective) from rōmānus (“a Roman”). Doublet of Romansch.

## AI Etymology
Romance comes from Middle English romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman language”, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus (“roman”, adjective) from rōmānus (“a Roman”). Doublet of Romansch. Modern senses include a romantic relationship or love affair between two people. and a story about love.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as bromance, crimance, cyberromance, erom, fauxmance, and outromance.

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