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> You might be interested to know that 'roman' is a False Friend

What is the source language?

Could be Russian.

french, maybe others

And English borrowed the term roman à clef from French:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_%C3%A0_clef

German has that word.

I know it's in Japanese, and according to my EN-JP dictionary they got it from British English at some point. Maybe it's just archaic English rather than false English?

I'm German.

Thanks for pointing this out. The parent comment suddenly makes sense.

Ah dammn it.. you got me! :D

Thanks!