roman

noun

a red or pink South African sea bream.

late 18th century: from Afrikaans rooi ‘red’ + man ‘man’.

1. relating to ancient Rome or its empire or people.

   a site rich in finds from Bronze Age and Roman settlements

2. short for Roman Catholic.

   the Roman Church's instructions to its clergy

3. denoting the alphabet (or any of the letters in it) used for writing Latin, English, and most European languages, developed in ancient Rome.

   he substituted the Roman alphabet for the Arabic in written Turkish

4. (of type) of a plain upright kind used in ordinary print, especially as distinguished from italic and Gothic.

   each complete type family in bold, italic, bold italic and roman

1. a citizen or soldier of the ancient Roman Republic or Empire.

   the Romans had a formidable army

2. a Roman Catholic.
3. roman type.

   it is signed in roman rather than his usual cursive script

Middle English: from Old French Romain, from Latin Romanus, from Roma ‘Rome’.