Consonant that, in certain languages, can act as a vowel (for example, n in didn’t). In general, resonants are l, m, n and r.

See Symmetry.

Word whose stress is in the stem.

Languages descended from Vulgar Latin or Proto-Romance. Amongst the main ones are Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian and Romanian.

Medieval dialects resulting of the fragmentation of Vulgar Latin, some of which transformed into the current Romance languages.

(Not to be confused with the country Romania) 1. In a narrow sense, region inhabited in the Antiquity by speakers of Latin; 2. Set of the countries and/or peoples speaking Romance languages.

Descendant of Vulgar Latin or the ancient Romances; the same as Latin (sense 2), Neo-Latin or Italic.

1. Inhabitants of the city of Rome; 2. Inhabitants of the Roman Empire.

Vowel articulated with the lips in a circle shape, such as [ɔ], [o] and [u], for example.