English
Proto-Romance
From proto- + Romance.
Proto-Indo-European *pér ‘through’
Proto-Indo-European *pró ‘forwards, before’
Proto-Hellenic *pró
Ancient Greek πρό ‘before’
Ancient Greek πρῶτος ‘first’
English proto-
Latin Rōma
Latin Rōmānus ‘Roman’
Latin rōmānicus ‘Roman’
Late Latin rōmānicē ‘in the Roman manner’
Old French romanz ‘vernacular language (of France)’
English Romance
Today it means
name The reconstructed ancestor of all the Romance languages.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Romance