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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.

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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.

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