roman

Etymology

adj

1. (of type, typography) upright, as opposed to italic.
   In some early printed Bibles quoted text is indicated by changing the font from roman to italic. 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 48
2. (of text, computing) of or related to the Latin alphabet.

noun

1. (typography) One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.
2. (archaic) A novel.
   2014, "Novel and Romance: Etymologies". Heyworth, Gregory; Logan, Peter Melville (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Novel, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 942. →ISBN Samuel Johnson, writing in his Dictionary of the English Language (1755), [defined] "novel [as] a small tale, generally of love." To modern sensibilities, Johnson's novel resembles more closely the novella in dimension and the romance in substance. … [T]he term romance, or roman, once interchangeable with novel in English, retains the meaning of novel in Germany, France, Russia, and most of Europe, while in the anglophone world it has been demoted to frivolity.