noun, feminine/ʁɔ.mɑ̃s/plural: romances
a ballad; a love song
“C’est un beau roman, c’est une belle histoire. C’est une romance d’aujourd’hui.” — It's beautiful tale, it's a beautiful story. It's a love song of today.
Borrowed from Spanish romance, itself probably a borrowing from either Old French romanz or Old Occitan romans, meaning a narrative work in the vernacular speech, from Vulgar Latin *romanĭce (“in a Roman manner”), compare Medieval Latin rōmānice, ultimately from Latin rōmānicus. See also roman (“novel”).