Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To convert (a person) to Roman Catholicism.
- transitive verb To make Roman in character, allegiance, or style.
- transitive verb To write or transliterate in the Latin alphabet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make Roman; specifically, to Latinize; fill with Latin words or modes of speech.
- To convert or proselytize to the Roman Catholic Church; imbue with Roman Catholic ideas, doctrines, or observances.
- [lowercase] To represent in writing or printing by roman letters or types.
- To use Latin words or idioms.
- To conform to or tend toward Roman Catholic polity, doctrine, ceremonies, or observances. Also spelled
Romanise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms.
- transitive verb To convert to the Roman Catholic religion.
- intransitive verb To use Latin words and idioms.
- intransitive verb To conform to Roman Catholic opinions, customs, or modes of speech.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Alternative form of
romanize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb write in the Latin alphabet
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Examples
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It is perhaps fanciful to suggest that we are now suffering the penalty of the failure of Rome to Romanize, that is to say, to civilize their Teutonic neighbours.
The Unity of Civilization Various
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It is this Jewish Jesus -- the one that "Kosher Jesus" uncovers from the pages of the New Testament itself which was edited so as to deny some much of Jesus' Jewishness and intentionally Romanize him -- that I am asking Jews to reclaim.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Religious Incitement Over My 'Kosher Jesus' Book Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012
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It is this Jewish Jesus -- the one that "Kosher Jesus" uncovers from the pages of the New Testament itself which was edited so as to deny some much of Jesus' Jewishness and intentionally Romanize him -- that I am asking Jews to reclaim.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Religious Incitement Over My 'Kosher Jesus' Book Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012
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It is this Jewish Jesus -- the one that "Kosher Jesus" uncovers from the pages of the New Testament itself which was edited so as to deny some much of Jesus' Jewishness and intentionally Romanize him -- that I am asking Jews to reclaim.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Religious Incitement Over My 'Kosher Jesus' Book Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012
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It is this Jewish Jesus -- the one that "Kosher Jesus" uncovers from the pages of the New Testament itself which was edited so as to deny some much of Jesus' Jewishness and intentionally Romanize him -- that I am asking Jews to reclaim.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Religious Incitement Over My 'Kosher Jesus' Book Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012
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Now, I'm tempted to re-Romanize "gogi" as "gogee," but then it might be mistakenly pronounced as "go, G," but in the end, it just rhymes with "bogey."
Archive 2006-04-01 2006
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We won't Romanize Chinese ideograms, but in Mandarin, "xing" means "star," and "bake" is a phonetic rendition of "bucks,"--and it's clear why the Seattle-based coffee roasting giant has just won a copyright battle against Shanghai Xingbake Café.
Forbes Faces Of The Week, Jan. 2-6 Faces Of The Week, Jan. 2-6 Forbes.com staff 2006
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And since this is my blog, I will now take the liberty to de-Romanize the popular version "bulgogi" and re-Romanize in the Delicious version that I think makes more sense for pronunciation based on reading Roman letters off a page.
Archive 2006-04-01 2006
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He instances, by a given subject, that were the artist to choose the "Death of Germanicus," he is never to forget that he is to represent "a Roman dying amidst Romans," and not to suffer individual grief to un-Romanize his subject.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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More often the mortality of war so thinned the population, that the settlement of Roman military colonies among them sufficed to keep down revolt and to Romanize the surviving fragment.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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