roman

Upright, as opposed to italic.

In some early printed Bibles quoted text is indicated by changing the font from roman to italic.

Of or related to the Latin alphabet or roman numerals.

One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.

Ellipsis of roman numeral.

A novel.

What raises One Last Waltz far above the usual family roman is not just the gimmick of the ancient fable in modern clothes […] but Mordden's language and his sheer joy at telling a story.

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.

Of or from Rome.

Of or from the Roman Empire.

Of or from the Byzantine Empire.

Of noble countenance but with little facial expression.

"Yes, I feel that I ought; and with me, to feel that I ought to do a thing, is to do it!" added he, looking quite Roman with excess of virtue.

Supporting the characters of the Latin alphabet.