Where does “romanticisme” come from?
romanticisme (French) comes from Catalan romàntic, from French romantique, from German romantisch, from Latin romanticus, from English Romantic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image — in.
romanticisme (French): romanticism
Definitions
- romanticism
Ancestry of “romanticisme”, step by step
romanticisme traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Catalan romàntic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | romàntic | romantic having the qualities of romance |
| 2 | French | romantique | romantic |
| 3 | German | romantisch | romantic |
| 4 | Latin | romanticus | romantic |
| 5 | English | Romantic | Of or pertaining to Romance; Of or pertaining to... |
| 6 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 7 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 8 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 9 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 10 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 11 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 12 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 13 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 14 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 15 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 16 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 17 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Old French romant
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | romant | Alternative form of romanz |