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I'm curious on why you call these languages "romance" languages.

"Piscina" is a Portuguese word for "pool", by the way.

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> I'm curious on why you call these languages "romance" languages.

That's what they're called: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

Romance languages are those derived from vulgar latin. They are called romance because Rome (Roma)

Portuguese is also a romance language, as Spanish or Italian. Piscina also means pool in Spanish by the way :)

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

To quote Wikipedia, "Romance languages (less commonly Latin languages, or Neo-Latin languages) are the modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin between the third and eighth centuries." "Piscina" is also "pool" in Romanian, which is, you guessed, a Romance language.

Got it.

In Portuguese they're only known for "Latin languages", which explains my question. ;-)

Not really. I've personally heard the term before. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADnguas_rom%C3%A2nicas

I haven’t. Maybe it’s not a popular term in Brazil.

Maybe it is just an English thing, but Romance languages are anything evolved from latin (predumably spread by the Roman empire, hence "romance"). Portuguese is included in the list, fwiw.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

Also in Italy, we say "piscina" in the same way.

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