ロマンチック

ロマンチック · romanchikku · JLPT N1 · na-adj

romantic

🌹 Sounds like roman chic: romance + -tic suffix, so romantic is romance-like

ロマン is borrowed from English romance, and チック adds the -tic ending from romantic. As a pun, roman chic works too: romantic flair in a chic, Roman style.

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