Where does “romantiek” come from?

romantiek (Dutch) comes from German Romantik, from French romantique, from German romantisch, from Latin romanticus, from English Romantic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image — in.

romantiek (Dutch): Romanticism

Definitions

  1. Romanticism

Ancestry of “romantiek”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanRomantikromanticism
2Frenchromantiqueromantic
3Germanromantischromantic
4Latinromanticusromantic
5EnglishRomanticOf or pertaining to Romance; Of or pertaining to...
6English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
7EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
8Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
9Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
10Spanishimagenimage
11Italianimmagineimage; imago
12Latinimāginem
13Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
14Latinīn-un-, non-, not
15Latinînin, at, on, upon, from (space)
16Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
17Proto-Italicenin
18Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én
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