Etymology

romanticly

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Proto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English romantic
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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. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  10. Proto-Germanic*līką
  11. English todayromanticly

From romantic + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.