Gallo-Romanadj.n.
A. adj.
Belonging to Gaul when it formed part of the Roman Empire.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > the Gauls > [adjective]
Celtic?1530
Gaulish1594
Gallican1598
Gaul1601
Gaulic1610
Menapian1709
Gallic1796
Gallo-Roman1841
1841 T. Arnold Lect. Mod. Hist. 33 Throughout the south of France the population is predominantly..of Gallo-Roman origin.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 528/1 These were also the days of what is called ‘the Gallo-Roman empire’.
1933 H. J. Chaytor Hist. Aragon iv. 62 Catalan presents a different problem; the question whether it belongs to the Hispanic or to the Gallo-Roman branches of the Romance languages is even yet in dispute.
1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. i. 16 Name of townships that trace unbroken descent from the name of their eponymous Gallo-Roman estate-owners.
B. n.
An inhabitant of Gaul under Roman rule; also, the language of these people.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > the Gauls > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Gaul
Frenchmanc1275
Gaula1387
Menapian1565
Gallo-Roman1861
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Celtic > Gaulish
Gaulic1610
Gaulish1610
Gallo-Roman1934
1861 W. H. Anderton tr. Dupanloup Serm. Catholic Ireland 8 Saint Patrick, that young Gallo-Roman whom we had sent to her [sc. Ireland].
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 528/2 The Visigoths and Gallo-Romans defeated the terrible hordes of Attila.
1934 M. K. Pope From Lat. to Mod. Fr. I. ii. 11 Thus the Romance languages in their early stage, Gallo-Roman, Hispano-Roman, Italo-Roman, etc, slowly took shape. The Gallo-Roman styled himself romanus.
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