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Rhomaian

Rhomaian adjective: of or pertaining to the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) empire; alternative form of Romaean.

Adjective

Rhomaian (comparative more Rhomaian, superlative most Rhomaian)

  1. (rare) Of or pertaining to the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) empire; alternative form of Romaean.
    • Procopius’s introduction to his Vandal War is a good example of the Roman (or Rhomaian) ethnographical point of view. Even after a century of barbarian rule in Africa or Italy, a Roman intellectual classed kings and elites according to barbarian groupings.R. Steinacher, ‘Who is the Barbarian? Considerations on the Vandal Royal Title’, in: W. Pohl en G. Heydemann (ed.), Post-Roman Transitions: Christian and Barbarian Identities in the Early Medieval...

Forms of Rhomaian

comparativemore Rhomaian
superlativemost Rhomaian

Origin of Rhomaian

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos) + -an, referring to the autonym used by Grecophone writers in the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire.

Questions about Rhomaian

What does Rhomaian mean?
Rhomaian means of or pertaining to the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) empire; alternative form of Romaean.
What part of speech is Rhomaian?
Rhomaian is an adjective.

Words near Rhomaian in the dictionary

  1. rhogocytes
  2. rhoids
  3. rhoifolin
  4. rhoipteleaceous
  5. Rhomaean
  6. Rhomaian
  7. rhomalaeosaurid
  8. rhomalaeosaurids
  9. rhomaleosaurid
  10. rhomaleosaurids
  11. Rhomania

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