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What does romance<\/strong> have to do with horses<\/strong>?<\/p>\n Well, the word romance has a number of meanings:<\/p>\n – A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc. The first meaning provides the connection to chivalry<\/strong>, a word which comes from Middle English chivalrie<\/em> (quality of being knight), from the Old French chevalerie<\/em> (knighthood, chivalry, nobility, cavalry), from chevaler<\/em> (knight, horseman), from the Medieval Latin caballarius<\/em> \u200e(horseman, knight), from the Vulgar Latin caballus<\/em> \u200e(horse), which meant ‘work horse, pack horse or nag’ in Classical Latin, possibly from the Gaulish caballos<\/em> (horse), or from an Old East Iranian dialect.<\/p>\n The word romance<\/strong> comes from the Middle English romauns, roumance<\/em>, from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans<\/em> (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from the Medieval Latin r\u014dm\u0101nic\u0113<\/em>, from the Vulgar Latin r\u014dm\u0101nic\u0113<\/em> \u200e(in the Roman language), from the Latin r\u014dm\u0101nicus<\/em> \u200e(roman) from r\u014dm\u0101nus<\/em> \u200e(a Roman).<\/p>\n Sources: Wiktionary<\/a>, Online Etymology Dictionary<\/a>, Degruyter.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What does romance have to do with horses? Well, the word romance has a number of meanings: – A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc. – An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair. – A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone. – Idealized love which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,15,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-latin","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
\n– A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
\n– Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
\n– A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
\n– A story or novel dealing with idealized love.
\n– An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
\n– An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
\n– A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
\n– (music) A romanza<\/em>, or sentimental ballad.<\/p>\n