Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Romaic

Romaic , adjective

[NGr. {not transcribed}: compare French romaique. See Roman.]

Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language.
The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic.

The Greeks at the time of the capture of Constantinople were proud of being "Romai^oi, or Romans... Hence the term Romaic was the name given to the popular language.... The Greek language is now spoken of as the Hellenic language.