Word Origin Summary

Romantic is attested in English. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• 로맨틱하다

  Korean · derived from

• romantický

  Czech · derived from

• romanttinen

  Finnish · derived from

• ρομαντικός

  Greek · borrowed from

• โรแมนติก

  Thai · borrowed from

• romantico

  Italian · borrowed from

• ロマンチック

  Japanese · borrowed from

• 浪漫的

  Japanese · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root