romanticization

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Vulgar Latin Rōma

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Vulgar Latin -nus

Vulgar Latin -ānus

Vulgar Latin rōmānus

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Vulgar Latin -icus

Vulgar Latin rōmānicus

Vulgar Latin -ē

Vulgar Latin rōmānicē

Old French romanz

Old French romauntder.

English romant

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Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

English romantic

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English -ization

English romanticization

From romantic + -ization.

Noun

romanticization (countable and uncountable, plural romanticizations)

The act or process of romanticizing.
The result of such a process; a romantic treatment.
Historians frowned upon his romanticization of the war.