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romanize¹

  • /ˈɹəʊ.mə.naɪz/ UK
  • /ˈɹoʊ.məˌnaɪz/ Canada, US

verb romanizes · romanizing · romanized · romanise · Romanize

  1. transitive To put letters or words written in another writing system into the Latin (Roman) alphabet. The author romanizes Chinese names using the Wade–Giles system rather than the Pinyin system.

    Similar: Latinize, transliterate

  2. capitalized, historical, transitive, usually To bring under the authority or influence of Rome. But since this custome was probably disused before their Invasion or Conquest, and the Romanes confessedly practised the same, since their possession of this Island, the most assured account will fall upon the Romanes, or Brittains Romanized.
  3. ambitransitive, capitalized, usually To make or become Roman in character or style. […] perhaps he has Romaniz’d his Grecian Dames too much, and made them speak sometimes as if they had been born in the City of Rome, and under the Empire of Augustus.
  4. ambitransitive, capitalized, usually To make or become Roman Catholic in religion (by conversion), character or style. […] the more primitive times of Protestantism were more leaning to that which Romanizing spirits have called Puritanism.

    Similar: Latinize

  5. obsolete, transitive To fill with Latin words or idioms. perhaps too, he [Ben Jonson] did a little to much Romanize our Tongue, leaving the words which he translated almost as much Latine as he found them: wherein though he learnedly followed the Idiom of their language, he did not enough comply with ours.

    Similar: Latinize

Romanize²

verb Romanizes · Romanizing · Romanized

  1. Alternative letter-case form of romanize ‘We don’t like their categorization system,’ explained Anthony. ‘It only makes sense in Roman characters, but not every language is so easily Romanized, is it?’

Romanize³

Where it comes from

From Roman(ian) + -ize.

verb Romanizes · Romanizing · Romanized

  1. transitive To Romanianize. On the surface, the current debate in Transylvania has to do with minority rights and local issues, like the re-establishment of those Hungarian language schools that had been 'Romanized' by Nicolae Ceausescu, the late dictator.

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verb to put letters or words into the Latin alphabet

Españollatinizar, romanizar
日本語ラテン文字化する Raten mojika-suru, ローマ字化する Rōmajika-suru
中文羅馬化 /罗马化 Luómǎhuà, 拉丁化 Lādīnghuà, 用羅馬字拚寫 /用罗马字拚写 yòng Luómǎzì pīnxiě
Portuguêsromanizar, latinizar
Françaislatiniser, romaniser
Deutschromanisieren, latinisieren
Italianoromanizzare
Русскийлатинизи́ровать latinizírovatʹ, романизи́ровать romanizírovatʹ
Tiếng ViệtLatinh hóa, Latinh hoá
العربيةرَوْمَنَ rawmana, نَقْحَرَ naqḥara, كَرْشَنَ karšana

verb to bring under authority or influence of Rome

Deutschromanisieren
Românăromaniza
Tiếng ViệtLa Mã hóa, Latinh hóa

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@misc{romanize_2026,
  title = {romanize},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/romanize},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}