Definition of Rhaeto-romance

1. Noun. Romance dialects spoken in parts of southeastern Switzerland and northern Italy and the Tyrol.

Exact synonyms: Rhaeto-romanic
Generic synonyms: Latinian Language, Romance, Romance Language
Specialized synonyms: Friuli, Friulian, Ladin, Romansh, Rumansh

Definition of Rhaeto-romance

1. Proper noun. (linguistics) a Romance language sub-family that includes multiple languages spoken in north and north-eastern Italy, and Switzerland. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhaeto-romance

Rh-positive blood type
Rh antibody
Rh antigens
Rh blocking test
Rh incompatibility
Rh negative
Rh null syndrome
Rh positive
Rhabditis
Rhabditis-like
Rhabdoviridae
Rhadamanthus
Rhadamanthuses
Rhadamnathus
Rhaetian
Rhaeto-Romance
Rhaeto-Romanic
Rhagoletis
Rhagoletis pomonella
Rhamadan
Rhamnaceae
Rhamnales
Rhamnus californicus
Rhamnus carolinianus
Rhamnus croceus
Rhamnus frangula
Rhamnus purshianus
Rhapis
Rhapis excelsa
Rhapis humilis

Literary usage of Rhaeto-romance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Europe by George Goudie Chisholm (1899)
"These are the interesting Rhaeto-Romance tribes, which had long failed to ... However, the mixed Rhaeto-Romance populations elsewhere yielded in " the ..."

2. Europe by Frederick William Rudler (1885)
"... the idiom now spoken by these Rhaeto-Romance people of the Grisons and ... The question whether, and how far, the Rhaeto-Romance race is connected with ..."

3. Philologica: Journal of Comparative Philology by Philological Society (Great Britain) (1922)
"508) argues that its presence in Rhaeto-Romance is due to Venetian influence. But this need not be taken seriously; the Italian Scholar (for political ..."

4. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"... consonant in linguistically conservative varieties of Romance (ie, Italian, Rumanian, Rhaeto-Romance, Norman, Picard, Mozarabic [Laus- berg 1965, 316]). ..."

5. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"... consonant in linguistically conservative varieties of Romance (ie, Italian, Rumanian, Rhaeto-Romance, Norman, Picard, Mozarabic [Laus- berg 1965, 316]). ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"These are the interesting Rhaeto-Romance tribes, which had long failed to receive the attention of the scientific world. Critical research has since ..."

7. Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature by Frank Edgar Farley, Harvard University Dept. of Modern Languages (1896)
"... be offered when aun or aum, instead of an, am, appears in other places where Romance and Germanic speech came into contact? For Rhaeto-Romance ..."

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