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Rhomaian
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English
Etymology
en grc Ῥωμαῖος en an, referring to the autonym used by Grecophone writers in the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire.
Adjective
en rare historiography Of or pertaining to the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) empire; en Romaean 1.
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 West (Turnhout 2013) 437-485, quote on page 439:
en 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.
Related terms
en Romaic
Anagrams
en aahimnor Harmonia