Rhomaian

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Rhomaian

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

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  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.

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@misc{rhomaian_2026,
  title = {Rhomaian},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rhomaian},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}