資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Romanic \Ro*man"ic\, a. [L. Romanicus. See {Romance}, n.]
   1. Of or pertaining to Rome or its people.

   2. Of or pertaining to any or all of the various languages
      which, during the Middle Ages, sprung out of the old
      Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish,
      Portuguese, French, Provencal, etc.

   3. Related to the Roman people by descent; -- said especially
      of races and nations speaking any of the Romanic tongues.

   {Romanic spelling}, spelling by means of the letters of the
      Roman alphabet, as in English; -- contrasted with phonetic
      spelling.