Where does “romantique” come from?
romantique (French) comes from German romantisch, from Latin romanticus, from English Romantic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.
romantique (French): romantic
Ancestry of “romantique”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | German | romantisch | romantic |
| 2 | Latin | romanticus | — |
| 3 | English | Romantic | Of or pertaining to Romance; Of or pertaining to... |
| 4 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 5 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 6 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 7 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 8 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 9 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 10 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 11 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 12 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 13 | Latin | în | — |
| 14 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 15 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
Words derived from “romantique”