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Gallo-Romance, a. and n. Linguistics.
Brit. |ˌgaləʊrə(ʊ)ˈmans|, U.S. |ˈˌgæloʊˌroʊˈmæns|
[‹ Gallo- comb. form1 + romance n. Compare French gallo-roman, adjective and noun.]
A. adj. Of or relating to the varieties of Romance spoken in Gaul in the period before the split into daughter languages and dialects (such as French, Provençal, etc.); of or relating to the group of Romance dialects descended from these varieties.
1892G. W. Kitchin Hist. France 166 Langue d'Oc and Langue d'Oil are the names given to the southern and northern dialects of the Gallo-Romance speech. 1937J. Orr tr. I. Iordan Introd. Romance Linguistics 169 On the fringes of the Gallo-Romance area. 1951R. A. Hall Short Hist. Ital. Lit. ii. 18 In the eighth and ninth centuries A. D., Francien became sharply differentiated from the rest of Gallo-Romance speech by a number of innovations. 1976Language 52 703 Rhaeto-Romance (especially its Western branches) shares various Gallo-Romance features with Provençal and with many Gallo-Italian dialects. 2002J. Minahan Encycl. Stateless Nations III. 1092 The language spoken by the Ligurians, called Ligurian or Ligure, is a Gallo-Romance language, often referred to as a Celto-Romance or Italo-Celtic dialect.
B. n. A Gallo-Romance language or dialect; such languages or dialects (and sometimes their descendants) considered collectively.
Gallo-Romance constitutes part of an intermediate stage in the transition from Latin to the modern Romance languages.
1907Gentleman's Mag. 394 The said oaths are preserved both in German and in Gallo-Romance, standing midway between Latin, as we understand it, and modern French. 1945Mod. Lang. Notes 60 523 It seems certain that raqueer is not a VL [sc. Vulgar Latin] compound of ra- (re-) and qui(i)etare because this verb has left no descendents in Gallo-Romance. 1953K. Jackson Lang. & Hist. Early Brit. 107 Some of the peculiarities of Gallo-Romance are certainly older. 1979Language 55 848 The examination of spelling conventions will perhaps be easier to follow if accompanied by a recapitulation of the sound changes leading from Late Latin to the sibilant systems of Gallo-Romance. 1997H. Wise Vocab. Mod. French 40 The problem of assigning a date—however approximate—to the beginnings of French, as opposed to the later forms of spoken Latin, or ‘Gallo-Romance’, is one that continues to exercise scholars today. |