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> You might be interested to know that 'roman' is a False Friend What is the source language?
by mason55 10y ago
> You might be interested to know that 'roman' is a False Friend
What is the source language?
- gukov 10y agoCould be Russian.
- kennywinker 10y agofrench, maybe others
- greenyoda 10y agoAnd English borrowed the term roman à clef from French: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_%C3%A0_clef https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_%C3%A0_clef
- sebiol 10y agoGerman has that word.
- derefr 10y agoI know it's in Japanese, and according to my EN-JP dictionary they got it from British English at some point. Maybe it's just archaic English rather than false English?
- philippz 10y agoI'm German.