Etymology

postromantic

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Today it means: Of the era following the romantic era (approximately 1880 to 1914). Full definition →

English romantic ← Old French romaunt ← Vulgar Latin rōmānicē
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. LatinRōmānus
  8. Latinrōmānicus
  9. Vulgar Latinrōmānicē
  10. Old Frenchromanz
  11. Old Frenchromaunt
  12. Englishromant
  13. Englishromantic
  14. English todaypostromantic

From post- + romantic.

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