FromRōma(“Rome”) +-ānus(“-an”,adjectival derivational suffix).
rōmānus (femininerōmāna,neuterrōmānum,adverbrōmānē);first/second-declension adjective
- Roman
- senātus populusquerōmānus (SPQR)
- theRoman Senate and People
Majestas populiromani revixit.- The majesty of theRoman people is restored.
Romani ite domum!- Romans, go home!
- (Medieval Latin)Christian, sometimesparticularlyCatholic.
First/second-declension adjective.
rōmānus m (genitiverōmānī);second declension
- Roman
- (Medieval Latin)Catholic
- (Medieval Latin)LatinFrank(a Latin-speaking inhabitant of the Frankish Kingdom)
Second-declension noun.
- "Romanus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- for a Roman he is decidedly well educated:sunt in illo, ut in homine Romano, multae litterae (De Sen. 4. 12)
- examples taken from Roman (Greek) history:exempla a rerum Romanarum (Graecarum) memoria petita
- Roman history (i.e. the events in it):res Romanae
- Roman history (i.e. the events in it):res gestae Romanorum
- Roman history (i.e. the exposition, representation of it by writers):historia Romana orrerum Romanarum historia
- Roman history (as tradition):memoria rerum Romanarum
- to write a history of Rome:res populi Romani perscribere
- to be well versed in Roman history:memoriam rerum gestarum (rerum Romanarum) tenere
- to transplant to Rome one of the branches of poesy:poesis genus ad Romanos transferre
- to be on friendly terms with the Roman people:in amicitia populi Romani esse (Liv. 22. 37)
- Asia was made subject to Rome:Asia populi Romani facta est