roman
roman Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Relating to ancient or modern Rome, its empire, its people, or its culture.
"Archaeologists uncovered the remains of an ancient Roman villa beneath the modern town."
(often lowercase) Designating the standard upright style of printing type, as distinguished from italic or blackletter, or using the Latin alphabet and Roman numerals.
"In standard academic style guides, book titles are italicized while the surrounding text remains in roman type."
Relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
"The liturgy followed the traditional Roman rite practiced throughout the diocese."
• noun
A citizen or native inhabitant of ancient or modern Rome, or of the ancient Roman Republic and Empire.
"The ancient Romans engineered an extensive network of paved roads and aqueducts across Europe."
(often lowercase) Plain upright printing type, as opposed to italic or boldface.
"The editor marked the manuscript to indicate that the foreign words should be set in roman rather than italics."
A city in Neamț County in the historical region of Moldavia in northeastern Romania, situated at the confluence of the Moldova and Siret rivers.
• Rhymes for roman
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old French romain and directly from Latin Romanus ('of Rome'), a derivative of Roma ('Rome'). The typographic sense arose in the 16th century because upright serif typefaces were modeled on ancient Roman inscriptions and Renaissance Italian humanist scripts, in contrast to slanted italic or heavy blackletter styles.