non-Romanadj.
/nɒnˈrəʊmən/, U.S. /nɑnˈroʊm(ə)n/ That is not Roman; (also) that is not Roman Catholic.
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uncatholic1601
acatholic1809
non-Catholic1823
unromanized1847
non-Roman1867
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > ancient Romans > [adjective] > not Roman
un-Romana1631
unromanized1771
non-Roman1867
1867 Old Guard Nov. 835/2 Many peculiar habits of non-Roman origin, which still linger around the sites of Palæopolis and Neapolis.
1897 Polit. Sci. Q. 12 61 Bruns underrated the importance of non-Roman elements in the Syrian Law Book.
1905 Tablet 14 Oct. 608/2 Some mission or other that called itself Catholic but confessed itself non-Roman.
1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics v. 193 The use of orthographic spaces, or other marks as in some non-roman scripts.
1990 Jrnl. Semitic Stud. 35 327 Turning to the non-Roman Near East, Crone shifts her attention to the institution of paramonē, that is, manumission in return for service.
1998 Word 49 35 Another modern English tendency is the concurrent transfer of both a loanword (with transliteration of any non-Roman letters) and its translation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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