Rhomaian
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos), referring to the autonym used by Grecophone writers in the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire.
Adjective
[edit]Rhomaian (comparative more Rhomaian, superlative most Rhomaian)
- (rare, historiography) Of or pertaining to the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) empire.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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: