Etymology

romanticise

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

  1. LatinRōma
  2. LatinRōmānus
  3. Latinrōmānicus
  4. Vulgar Latinrōmānicē
  5. Old Frenchromanz
  6. Old Frenchromaunt
  7. Englishromant
  8. Englishromantic
  9. English todayromanticise

From romantic + -ise.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.