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I'm curious on why you call these languages "romance" languages. "Piscina" is a Portuguese word for "pool", by the way.

• age008 6y ago
  To quote Wikipedia, "Romance languages (less commonly Latin languages, or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the third and eighth centuries." "Piscina" is also "pool" in Romanian, which is, you guessed, a Romance language.
  • andreynering 6y ago
    Got it. In Portuguese they're only known for "Latin languages", which explains my question. ;-)
    • Kaze404 6y ago
      Not really. I've personally heard the term before. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADnguas_rom%C3%A2nicas https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADnguas_rom%C3%A2nicas
      • gdsimoes 6y ago
        I haven’t. Maybe it’s not a popular term in Brazil.
• mayank 6y ago
  > I'm curious on why you call these languages "romance" languages. That's what they're called: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages
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• rodrigodiez 6y ago
  Romance languages are those derived from vulgar latin. They are called romance because Rome (Roma) Portuguese is also a romance language, as Spanish or Italian. Piscina also means pool in Spanish by the way :) https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages
• zdragnar 6y ago
  Maybe it is just an English thing, but Romance languages are anything evolved from latin (predumably spread by the Roman empire, hence "romance"). Portuguese is included in the list, fwiw. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages
• th3h4mm3r 6y ago
  Also in Italy, we say "piscina" in the same way.
• olakease 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages