Why Is Romance Named After The Romans?

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  • Опубликовано: 3 дек 2024

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  • @NameExplain
    @NameExplain  3 года назад +61

  • @allanrichardson1468
    @allanrichardson1468 3 года назад +148

    An interesting coincidence is that the Latin word for love, “amor,” is the Latin word for the city, “Roma,” spelled backwards.

  • @firecreeper2249
    @firecreeper2249 3 года назад +59

    idk if I missed it in the video but here's an interesting thing I found:
    english: ancient rome
    french: rome antique
    french: romantique
    english: romantic

  • @WaterShowsProd
    @WaterShowsProd 3 года назад +91

    Just like everything else, we have Julius Caesar to thank for romance.

    • @davidfreeman3083
      @davidfreeman3083 3 года назад +1

      Et the French don't forget

    • @MagnumInnominandum
      @MagnumInnominandum 3 года назад +1

      Did you even see this video? *smh

    • @WaterShowsProd
      @WaterShowsProd 3 года назад +3

      @@MagnumInnominandum If I hadn't then how would I have made this joke? The video states that word came from the Roman influence on what we now call French, which at the time was Gaul, which was... wait for it... conquered by Julius Caesar. Perhaps, had he not done so, we might get Germanic on St. Valentine's Day instead.

    • @MagnumInnominandum
      @MagnumInnominandum 3 года назад +1

      @@WaterShowsProd J.C. was a bit too specific I thought as He was never mentioned. Sorry to bust your balls. We just have a different sense of the content I suppose.

    • @cuzuvmcvoy
      @cuzuvmcvoy 3 года назад

      @@MagnumInnominandum Apparently not.
      😂

  • @kensh851
    @kensh851 3 года назад +14

    Roman's Romantic = love, power, spirit
    Goth's Gothic = dark, angst, rebel

  • @JanHouben
    @JanHouben 3 года назад +76

    In Dutch, a novel (book) is still called a 'roman'...

    • @laser8389
      @laser8389 3 года назад +12

      German too. It doesn't have to be "romantic" in the English sense, just a long-form book, and now I see how they're related.

    • @95Joper
      @95Joper 3 года назад +4

      I was about to say the same thing, Dutch too.

    • @sofiaormbustad7467
      @sofiaormbustad7467 3 года назад +4

      Norwegian too

    • @ArkUmbrae
      @ArkUmbrae 3 года назад +3

      That's what we call them in Bosnia (and presumably Croatia, Serbia and Montengro too). I've been wondering for years why that was, and this video finally explained it. We also call a comic book a "roman".

    • @almazu2770
      @almazu2770 3 года назад +1

      In Russian too

  • @davidbaron7427
    @davidbaron7427 3 года назад +38

    Hi Patrick! Fun fact : In French, the word for "novel" is "roman" :) now I know why !

  • @johnfelixable
    @johnfelixable 3 года назад +108

    In German, the word 'Roman' means novel (as in book).

    • @kevintan6618
      @kevintan6618 3 года назад +18

      Same in French

    • @toma_radboa
      @toma_radboa 3 года назад +11

      Same in Croatia!

    • @thijsbos
      @thijsbos 3 года назад +9

      Yeah, I can confirm it's the same in Dutch too. I wonder if this Roman has the same etymological origin as Romantic Roman.

    • @fajks5997
      @fajks5997 3 года назад +6

      Swedish too

    • @michciara32
      @michciara32 3 года назад +5

      Same in Dutch

  • @dashknife-edge6539
    @dashknife-edge6539 3 года назад +40

    When someone who speaks Spanish, Italian or Portuguese find each other in the comment section

  • @jovanweismiller7114
    @jovanweismiller7114 3 года назад +7

    You left out my favourite Romance language! It's Romansh, spoken mainly in the Canton of the Grisons in Switzerland, the country's fourth official language, along with French, Italian, and German.

  • @thewetzelsixx9009
    @thewetzelsixx9009 3 года назад +30

    Draw me like one of your Romanz girls.

  • @isaacbobjork7053
    @isaacbobjork7053 3 года назад +8

    Oh, now I have Lady Gaga "Bad Romance" stuck in my mind

    • @fairycat23
      @fairycat23 3 года назад +1

      Ra-ra roma-ma, roma, ro-ma-ma, ga-ga, oh-la-la, want your bad romance

  • @gregcampwriter
    @gregcampwriter 3 года назад +11

    Rome is obviously named after a time-traveling Romulan who visited Earth at some point.

  • @markokostic2820
    @markokostic2820 3 года назад

    Hey! I really liked this video. It's very interesting topic. I enjoyed watching.
    Thans!

  • @lancesvensson1703
    @lancesvensson1703 3 года назад +4

    Maybe it's called Rome because they named it after some tribal leader of the tribe that founded Rome. Making the myth slightly true. Because a good chunk of myths were from events that became heavily exaggerated

  • @modmaker7617
    @modmaker7617 3 года назад +27

    Romance in Polish is "Romans".
    Romans in Polish is "Rzymianie".
    Rome in Polish is "Rzym".

    • @aabidn275
      @aabidn275 3 года назад +5

      Bro mandarin is easier to learn than polish 🤦‍♂️ I’ve tried

    • @meetaverma8372
      @meetaverma8372 3 года назад +4

      how do you pronounce 'Rzym'?

    • @modmaker7617
      @modmaker7617 3 года назад +2

      @@meetaverma8372
      It's impossible to spell it out phonetically. Audio is the only way. Google Translate pronounced it correctly.
      Polish is truly a hard language.

    • @marmac83
      @marmac83 3 года назад +1

      @@meetaverma8372 Dunno. How do you pronounce Troughton? I mean, if you're going to rag on the Polish language, try pronouncing some English words as written, first.

    • @Alaryk111
      @Alaryk111 3 года назад

      @@meetaverma8372 Zhim

  • @GailGurman
    @GailGurman 3 года назад

    Thank you for this video. I have always wondered how these words were related.

  • @fugithegreat
    @fugithegreat 3 года назад

    Thanks for this explanation! This is one of those things I have consistently wondered about over the years but have never bothered to Google.

  • @Bismvth
    @Bismvth 3 года назад +5

    Xidnaf has a pretty good old video on this too if anyone's looking for even more confirmation

  • @Nosirrbro
    @Nosirrbro 3 года назад +1

    9:43
    Not strictly true, the vast majority, if not the entirety, of latin influence in english comes from the norman french who conquered the land, alongside later influence from other romance languages and the use of latin as an ecclesiastical and scientific language. I would guess this is probably due to the fact that when rome conquered what we would now call england, it was populated by britonnic peoples (such as the modern welsh). The germanic anglo-saxons would largely come after rome fell, as rome was quite successful at repelling them up until that point.

  • @luizappicanco
    @luizappicanco 3 года назад

    In Portuguese, romance is a polysemic word. It’s used to describe love affairs; novels (book) in general; narrative pieces written in a romance language, in prose or in verse; and a bunch of other things related to literature and even music.

  • @LearnGermanwithMarzipanfrau
    @LearnGermanwithMarzipanfrau 3 года назад +4

    10:10 That romantic comic cracks me up. xD

  • @juleksz.5785
    @juleksz.5785 3 года назад +1

    In bases of word ramanse lays romanicus ‘in roman style’, and phrase romanice scribere ‘writing in roman’ (galloroman, commonfolks language). Basing on them in old french emerched word ronmanz (later: romance) meaning language of common folk (referring to people from northern france), which evolved into ‘story’ and alter in 'novel' and ‘love adventure’.
    I found it in some ethymology site.

  • @slyninja4444
    @slyninja4444 3 года назад +7

    I find it interesting how the idea of chivalry and knights saving women (damsels in distress) still caries on to this day in modern stories like Superman saving Lois Lane.

    • @fermintenava5911
      @fermintenava5911 3 года назад

      Well, many of the adventures and romances were written to improve the chivalry of the noble class and present them with the ideal what a "knight in shining armor" had to be. A good chunk of Arturian stories were written in that spirit.

  • @r3n3gad33
    @r3n3gad33 3 года назад +24

    I'm sure that the Romans invented love.

    • @meetaverma8372
      @meetaverma8372 3 года назад +7

      yeah, because before the roman empire they all married for hate

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 3 года назад +6

      Romans after inventing love:
      **BUSINESS is BOOMIN**

    • @DISTurbedwaffle918
      @DISTurbedwaffle918 3 года назад +8

      Greeks invented sex.
      Romans discovered you could have it with women, and invented love.

    • @jbrown8601
      @jbrown8601 3 года назад +1

      @@DISTurbedwaffle918 burn lol

    • @tothboy01
      @tothboy01 3 года назад

      @@meetaverma8372 No, in ancient times everybody married for livestock animals. Plus the woman was just a piece of property passed from her father to her new husband.

  • @Kestas_X
    @Kestas_X 3 года назад +1

    I was literally thinking about why those words sound so similar.

  • @zobilnik6970
    @zobilnik6970 3 года назад +8

    I didnt know gouls were actually real and even had their own goulish country thats now modern day France! The more you know I guess.

    • @LuinTathren
      @LuinTathren 3 года назад +2

      I suppose it's possible many GAULS became GHOULS. But I wouldn't bet money on it.

    • @nataliemay7103
      @nataliemay7103 3 года назад

      The husband and I are using this preferred term now. If it was a country full of ghouls maybe they got what was coming to them...

  • @SantaFe19484
    @SantaFe19484 3 года назад +2

    I used to wonder what the connection between romance and the Romance languages was.

  • @gregorybrian
    @gregorybrian 3 года назад +1

    Your description of Romantic period composers is misleading. It was focused on emotional expression.

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 3 года назад +2

    who can forget the new romantic music of the 1980's

  • @ozrainmaker
    @ozrainmaker 3 года назад

    The last drawing 😻

  • @matheuroux5134
    @matheuroux5134 3 года назад

    Not to mention those "Romanz books" live on in that the word for Novel in many languages is still "Roman" or how the literary term for a coming of age story is a "bildungsroman". Roman basically came to mean novel as in book and that's where romantic comes from, saying a relationship is like something out of a book basically.

  • @bernardobarzottozomer5538
    @bernardobarzottozomer5538 3 года назад +2

    I wouldn't use Beethoven as a symbol of romantic composers, given that he marks the very transition from classicism to romanticism in music. Tchaikovsky would be a more appropriate and almost as popular alternative imo

    • @LuinTathren
      @LuinTathren 3 года назад +1

      Nice to see someone who knows his Western Art Music.

    • @RyebuckCoppercap
      @RyebuckCoppercap 3 года назад +1

      From what I remember in music history class, Beethoven started as a baroque composer and later in his life his style changed to being more close to a romantic composer, making him one of the earliest romantic composers

    • @bernardobarzottozomer5538
      @bernardobarzottozomer5538 3 года назад

      Not baroque, but classical. That period ended 20 years prior to his birth with the death of JS Bach. It can be said that Beethoven was the first romantic composer, but citing him as an example of the famous/peak romantic style isn't very appropriate

    • @finden3362
      @finden3362 3 года назад +1

      Beethoven is between, almost anyone after him is romantic, like Chopin.

    • @bernardobarzottozomer5538
      @bernardobarzottozomer5538 3 года назад

      Exactly. Excluding the ones after the end of the romantic period, of course

  • @supermegadrive64
    @supermegadrive64 3 года назад +6

    3:55 haha you made a typo! Everybody! Look at the typo! The r is supposed to be an e!

    • @MarcTelang
      @MarcTelang 3 года назад

      you made a typo its e-a not r-a

    • @ashleylentz2651
      @ashleylentz2651 3 года назад

      @@MarcTelang what are *you* talking about? Ashley hasn't made any typos. Name explain, on the other hand, has. In the video it's. Thr instead of The.

    • @MarcTelang
      @MarcTelang 3 года назад

      @@ashleylentz2651 oh I didn't notice the thr I got confused because. Name explain said Vernecular not Vernacular

  • @Kestas_X
    @Kestas_X 3 года назад

    5:05 In german novels are called "Romane" singular "Roman" to this day.

  • @vasource757
    @vasource757 8 месяцев назад

    The true meaning of chivalry has nothing to do with love but the concept of knights' obligation to their land and king.

  • @grugnotice7746
    @grugnotice7746 3 года назад

    The only part about the story of Romulus and Remus that is fantastical is the "being breast fed by a she wolf" part, which is a pretty obvious embellishment told to make their leaders seem stronger. The rest of the story is completely grounded and normal sounding. Two brothers decided to build a city (normal in those days), and fought over it.

  • @fyreboi83
    @fyreboi83 3 года назад +1

    I think of all the things I learned in this video, my biggest takeaway is that Patrick is a romantic legless ghost as proven around 10:16. I guess we never have gotten a full body shot of the man. 🤷🏽 🤣👍🏼

  • @yellopenpen3653
    @yellopenpen3653 3 года назад

    i was just thinking about this yesterday and then this pops up on my recommended 😭

  • @LuinTathren
    @LuinTathren 3 года назад +1

    10:10 Sexy.
    Patrick looks pretty good too. But it's hard to resist a silverback.

  • @iateyursandwiches
    @iateyursandwiches 3 года назад

    I thought romanticism also simply meant stores about adventures rather than simply stores about courtship?

  • @markokostic2820
    @markokostic2820 3 года назад +1

    Just like german, french and dutch the word "roman" means "novel".
    Interesting :)

  • @dracodistortion9447
    @dracodistortion9447 3 года назад +3

    Native Gauls spoke a Celtic tongue, not a Latin tongue.

    • @sebasbot01
      @sebasbot01 3 года назад

      Up to a point. Once conquered they slowly started adapting the new language and by the time the Roman empire fell the latinisation of Gaul was vast

    • @dracodistortion9447
      @dracodistortion9447 3 года назад

      @@sebasbot01 okay, but NATIVE Gauls spoke a Celtic language.

    • @dracodistortion9447
      @dracodistortion9447 3 года назад

      @Вхламинго okay, but i'm talking about NATIVE Gauls

    • @DISTurbedwaffle918
      @DISTurbedwaffle918 3 года назад

      @@dracodistortion9447
      Native Gauls learned Latin after being conquered, chucklefuck.

  • @rinhays4523
    @rinhays4523 3 года назад

    10:10
    What the................................

  • @christianrodier3381
    @christianrodier3381 3 года назад

    that is interestings!

  • @SnarkNSass
    @SnarkNSass 3 года назад +1

    Picard?!🖖✌

  • @nicnic1981
    @nicnic1981 3 года назад +1

    Why is it not North Vespucci, Central Vespucci, South Vespucci and The United States of Vespucci? Just saying

  • @ianmclean2515
    @ianmclean2515 3 года назад

    Man do I miss the 4-6min videos

  • @wyleong4326
    @wyleong4326 3 года назад

    But that’s over 1300+ years between the fall of Rome to the love novels. That’s a really long pay-off. The Romans really know how to build indestructible buildings and play the long game.

  • @thetownfool-t5e
    @thetownfool-t5e 3 года назад +3

    Historically speaking, the Romans invented love, the gauls did not know what love was, until after they got integrated
    And the Persians focused so much on attacking the beautiful glorious empire of rome, that they did not know what love was until 1999, and the Germans haven't even discovered happiness yet,

  • @heronimousbrapson863
    @heronimousbrapson863 3 года назад

    "Roman" is the French wprd for "Novel" (ie the form of writing).

  • @ArturoVilchez92
    @ArturoVilchez92 3 года назад +1

    I had no idea that it was actually French who gave it the name. Wow

  • @abigailfaith576
    @abigailfaith576 3 года назад +2

    Hiiiiii I’m early heh

  • @Infamous1892
    @Infamous1892 3 года назад

    I feel like an idiot. ROME-ROMEANCE. It's in the freaking name. Oh wow.

  • @murugesanperumal8386
    @murugesanperumal8386 3 года назад

    Because Bard thought it's the best way to do ❤️

  • @infinite5540
    @infinite5540 3 года назад

    Well... the Romans sure didn’t discriminate... i’ll give them that

  • @TimRrstrm
    @TimRrstrm 3 года назад +1

    Thr!

  • @debodatta7398
    @debodatta7398 3 года назад +2

    5:54 ...yea people just fell in love with those and it wasn't colonially exported LMFAO

  • @bruhz_089
    @bruhz_089 3 года назад

    Why is Romania (the name) similar to the name of the Roman Empire?

    • @DISTurbedwaffle918
      @DISTurbedwaffle918 3 года назад +1

      Essentially, it was a key province in the Roman Empire, but was a strategic nightmare, being surrounded on three fronts by barbarian lands. Thus, it was heavily occupied by the Roman military, much like the Rhineland and Valentia (Northern England and part of Wales). Roman forts became the foundation for towns and cities in the region, Roman citizens established long term populations, native Dacians were Romanized, and Dacia was remote enough that the fall of the West was a distant cataclysm while Roman authority remained strong in the much closer Byzantine Empire. Then, as the Ottomans butchered and oppressed their way into Europe, the occupants, then called Wallachians grew increasingly desirous of the better times. So, when they gained independence from the Ottomans, they proclaimed their renewed country Romania, the land of the Romans, and are one of the only countries that actually teaches Latin (though a local dialect) as a second language.

  • @duh4572
    @duh4572 3 года назад +1

    Wait, the Gaul's are Celtic so... eh or are you talking about after the roman invasion?

  • @StudioUAC
    @StudioUAC 3 года назад +2

    we need more romances written for the male millennial.

    • @BigAl2-u7e
      @BigAl2-u7e 3 года назад

      You're right, more people should learn about the greatest civilization in human history.

  • @VulcanTrekkie45
    @VulcanTrekkie45 3 года назад +4

    It's kinda misleading to say the Gauls spoke Romanus. The Gauls had their own language: Gaulish. It was a Celtic language that only became extinct in the 6th century AD, just barely overlapping with the advent of Old French.

    • @matheuroux5134
      @matheuroux5134 3 года назад

      Yeah, what he actually SHOULD HAVE said is "the Roman Gauls spoke a language called Romanus"

    • @joaomartins9800
      @joaomartins9800 3 года назад

      Yes, but the gaulish language was already fading by that time, and the gauls themselves were assimilated to roman culture and refer to themselves as romans. For example, the "Gallic Empire" (a rebel state which existed during the third century crisis) was never called "gallic" by its contemporaries, as it was just a powerbase for a series of Roman military leaders and aristocrats declared themselves emperors.

  • @lucasprior7922
    @lucasprior7922 Год назад

    It's pronounced Gaul like "gall," not "ghoul!" 😜

  • @coweatsman
    @coweatsman 3 года назад

    So in the future after the "great reset" and a new dark age "Engliz" may pertain to "romantic love" because of the many love stories written in the languages descended from the great extinct lingua franca that was the English language.

    • @coweatsman
      @coweatsman 3 года назад

      Or "amence" or "amentic" after the fallen American Empire.

  • @ludwigjosh9619
    @ludwigjosh9619 3 года назад

    Now do why a salad name after caesar

  • @thedownfallparodist1145
    @thedownfallparodist1145 3 года назад +6

    Video Idea: Why Did Persia change it's name to Iran?

    • @aervanath
      @aervanath 3 года назад +1

      Already been done pretty well by another channel: ruclips.net/video/zoyctsgMwq0/видео.html

    • @DISTurbedwaffle918
      @DISTurbedwaffle918 3 года назад +1

      It was never called Persia by its own people. Persia was a Greek exonym for the country, much like Parthia was.

  • @gregcampwriter
    @gregcampwriter 3 года назад

    The German word for novel is Roman.

  • @darkvoodoomagic
    @darkvoodoomagic 3 года назад

    Love

  • @DarwinskiYT
    @DarwinskiYT 3 года назад +3

    Haven’t watched the video yet but I’m pretty sure it’s called Romania because it’s located where the Byzantines went after the empire fell
    Edit: I read the title wrong and thought it said Romania

    • @dracodistortion9447
      @dracodistortion9447 3 года назад +1

      For the record
      Romania was called "Romania" by a few Italian travellers going to Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldovia who called the three kingdoms "Romania" since Rome owned a tiny portion of the area which was formerly known as Dacia, since the native Dacians lived there.

  • @robertmiller9735
    @robertmiller9735 3 года назад +1

    Romantic means a lot more than sexual love. A sort-of anti-intellectual cultural and artistic movement, for instance. And Pepe le Pew is an awful sexual assaulter.

    • @jbrown8601
      @jbrown8601 3 года назад

      He just taking care of business

  • @DarwinskiYT
    @DarwinskiYT 3 года назад +2

    H

  • @Jay.B.2046
    @Jay.B.2046 3 года назад

    For the algorithm.

  • @bumblebeeeoptimus
    @bumblebeeeoptimus 3 года назад

    In Portuguese the word for novel is 'Romance' (for example: Graphic Novel = Romance Gráfico)

  • @zsoltsandor3814
    @zsoltsandor3814 3 года назад

    We Came As Romanz

  • @eaglethrasher1482
    @eaglethrasher1482 3 года назад +1

    Because Greeks got Greek tragedy 🎭 so we had to give the Romans something
    Just a joke calm down Jennifer go Rome somewhere else.

  • @sdspivey
    @sdspivey 3 года назад

    Romans were not from Rome, they came from Roma.

  • @geertvlaenckx9942
    @geertvlaenckx9942 3 года назад

    And bromance comes from Brome

    • @Cybernaut551
      @Cybernaut551 3 года назад

      Bro, the Empire is pretty chill.

  • @Nguyenzander
    @Nguyenzander 3 года назад

    8th

  • @lucianthehedgehog8490
    @lucianthehedgehog8490 3 года назад +1

    I dated with girlfriend

  • @servantofaeie1569
    @servantofaeie1569 3 года назад

    Before wathcing video: I think romance was named after the the Romance languages, which people think sounds "lovely". The Romance languages are undoubtably named after their geographical origin, Rome.

  • @davidfreeman3083
    @davidfreeman3083 3 года назад

    And also, I don't think there're any real French speaking countries in Asia. Probably bcs how much they hate France & how France basically gave up on geopolitical positions in A/P area most former French colonies no longer speak French in any significant extent. (Not official language, not business language, not language of teaching for the majority of the education system, probably not even the most popular foreign language).

  • @zsoltsandor3814
    @zsoltsandor3814 3 года назад

    Bad Romance