Crossword-Solution: ROMAIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Romaic | a. | Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language. |
| Romaic | n. | The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ROMAIC | anagram | MIACRO |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ROMAIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Of modern Greece | 1 answer |
| The modern Greek tongue. | 1 answer |
| Modern Greek vernacular | 2 answers |
| Modern Greek | 2 answers |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
TAGEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ROMAIC (5)
There were gangs of sailors likewise, Genoese, judging from the patois which they were speaking, though I occasionally distinguished the sound of “tou logou sas,” by which I knew there were Greeks at hand, and twice or thrice caught a glimpse of the red cap and blue silken petticoats of the mariner from the Romaic isles.
The lady after seven years rejoins Lord Bateman: he has just married a local bride, but “orders another marriage,” and sends home his bride “in a coach and three.” This incident is stereotyped in the ballads and occurs in an example in the Romaic.
The appearance of the “True Love,” just at her lover’s wedding, is common in the _Märchen_ of the world, and occurs in a Romaic ballad, as well as in many from Northern Europe.
The idea of the romance occurs in a Romaic _Märchen_, but, in place of the Queen of Faery, a more beautiful girl than the sorceress (Nereid in Romaic), restores the youth to his true shape.
Robin is an idealized bandit, reiver, or Klepht, as in modern Romaic ballads, and his adventures are precisely such as popular fancy everywhere attaches to such popular heroes.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Three Across.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1945–2006).