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The Romani (aka Gypsies, though some consider that a slur) are nomadic people who dispersed across Europe about a thousand years ago. In other languages they have exonyms like tzigane, gitan, and bohème, but "Romani" seems to be the preferred term nowadays.

But if one wanted to speak about them in Latin, what term should be used?

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  Romani and roma are endonyms (names they use for themselves), but using Romanus seems overly confusing in Latin, since they don't come from Rome.


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  Bohème can be back-derived to Bohemi(c)us, but they're not from Bohemia/the Czech Republic either.


• "Gypsy" and gitan both go back to Aegypti(c)us, but they're not from Egypt.


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  Tzigane and its relatives come from Greek ἀθίγγανος "untouchable", which would give Latin athinganus or intangibilis, but I can't see that as anything other than insulting.

In Romanian they're called Rromani or Rroma to distinguish them from, well, Romanians. But starting a word with a double letter looks distinctly non-Latin to me.

The relevant entry in Smith's Copious & Critical English-Latin reads "gipsy: Cingarus, Zingarus, f. -a :after their Italian name Zingari, The Gipsies, *Aegypti qui feruntur."

That seems quite acceptable to me. However, since there is no classical precedent, I should think that you can please yourself on this. My own preferred word is gitanus, which in a very small poll that I once conducted was felt to be more readily recognised as 'gipsy', presumably because of familiarity with the brand Gitanes of French cigarettes.

[As an aside, there is a peripatetic cricket club in the UK and Australia, I Zingari so called because they have no home ground.]

The Latin wikipedia uses Zingari as generic term and offers a lot of more terms.