Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
roman en · ADJ
Pronunciation
rōmən
/ˈɹəʊmən/
Etymology
From Roman.
Meanings
(not-comparable, of type) Upright, as opposed to italic.
In some early printed Bibles quoted text is indicated by changing the font from roman to italic. 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 48:
(not-comparable, of text) Of or related to the Latin alphabet or roman numerals.
es redondillo (upright) · es romanillo (upright) · es redondo (upright)
roman en · NOUN
Pronunciation
rōmən
/ˈɹəʊmən/
Etymology
From Roman.
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, qualifier:chiefly American typesetting; uncommon outside that; chiefly American typesetting; uncommon outside that, uncountable) Ellipsis of roman numeral.
What raises One Last Waltz far above the usual family roman is not just the gimmick of the ancient fable in modern clothes […] but Mordden's language and his sheer joy at telling a story. 1986 December 21, Michael Bronski, “Buddy Stories Your Brother Never Told You”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 23, page 7:
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.
es redondilla (upright letter type) · es letra redonda (upright letter type) · fi antiikva (upright letter type) · es letra redondilla (upright letter type) · nl romein (upright letter type) · hu álló (upright letter type) · hu antikva (upright letter type) · es letra romanilla (upright letter type) · es redonda (upright letter type)