romanize

English

Alternative forms

• romanise (mainly British)

Verb

romanize (third-person singular simple present romanizes, present participle romanizing, simple past and past participle romanized)

1. (historical) Bring under the authority or influence of Rome.
2. Make Roman or Roman Catholic in disposition.
3. To put letters or words written in another writing system into the Latin (Roman) alphabet.

Translations

transliterate to the Latin alphabet

Arabic: رومن (ar) (ráwmana), نقحر (ar) (náqHara), كرشن (ar) (kárshana) Chinese: Mandarin: 羅馬化 (cmn), 罗马化 (cmn) (Luómǎhuà), 拉丁化 (cmn) (Lādīnghuà), 用羅馬字拚寫 (cmn), 用罗马字拚写 (cmn) (yòng Luómǎzì pīnxiě) Dutch: romaniseren (nl), transcriberen (nl) French: latiniser (fr), romaniser (fr)

German: romanisieren (de), latinisieren (de) Japanese: ラテン文字化する (ja) (Raten mojika-suru), ローマ字化する (ja) (Rōmajika-suru) Khmer: ធ្វើរ៉ូមនីយកម្ម (km) (tver rom ney yak kam) Portuguese: romanizar (pt), latinizar (pt) Russian: латинизировать (ru) (latinizírovat'), романизировать (ru) (romanizírovat') Spanish: latinizar (es), romanizar (es)

phonetically describe each letter of a word

Dutch: spellen (nl)

Synonyms

• to Latinize

References

• “romanize” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• NOAD, 2nd ed.

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Portuguese

Verb

romanize

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of verb romanizar.
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of verb romanizar.
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of verb romanizar.
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of verb romanizar.