Etymology

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Today it means: Aromantic (not experiencing romantic attraction). Full definition →

English aromanticclip. ← Old French romaunt ← Vulgar Latin rōmānicē
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Hellenic*ə-
  4. Ancient Greekἀ- (a-)
  5. Englisha-
  6. LatinRōma
  7. LatinRōmānus
  8. Latinrōmānicus
  9. Vulgar Latinrōmānicē
  10. Old Frenchromanz
  11. Old Frenchromaunt
  12. Englishromant
  13. Englishromantic
  14. Englisharomanticclip.
  15. English todayaro

Clipping of aromantic. Coined on the Internet in the 2010s.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.