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.
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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.
... two dominant races in modern history—the Germanic and the Romanic races. The Germanic races tend to personal liberty, to a sturdy individualism, to civil and to political liberty. The Romanic race tends to absolutism in government; it is clannish; it loves chieftains; it develops a people that crave strong and showy governments to support ... — American Eloquence, Volume IV. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1897) • Various