Does the word Romance come from Rome?

Answer 1

Most likely it is because the Word Romance has Rome in it. Also people say the city of Rome is the city of Romance. So that is why most likely the word romance comes from Rome. Hope this will be suiting for you. ;)

Answer 2

Romance is one of those words that has changed a lot until it came toits modern usage as the equivalent of a "love story"

The word was originally taken from the Latin word romant, which meant 'in the Roman manner'. Romantic became more associated with the Romance languages (French and Spanish) which derived from Latin.

At that time literature then was split into two types: the serious stuff (essays and treatments) written in Latin and enjoyable writing (about heroes and tragedies written in the more common languages (Romantic languages). These were considered more suited for tales of knights and fantasy. Romantic was used for "light" literature.
This literature initially including tales of all sorts of fiction that involved any imaginary setting. This meaning eventually reduced to love stories or ideal relationships. Eventually anything dealing with sugary affairs, boy meets true love etc was called "Romantic" or related to "Romance"