Etymology

romaunt

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Today it means: A romantic story told in verse; a romance. Full definition →

Old French romaunt ← Vulgar Latin rōmānicē ← Latin rōmānicus
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The story

  1. LatinRōma
  2. LatinRōmānus
  3. Latinrōmānicus
  4. Vulgar Latinrōmānicē
  5. Old Frenchromanz
  6. Old Frenchromaunt
  7. English todayromaunt

From Old French romaunt (modern roman), variant of romanz.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.