Latinization
[ U ]
the process of making a church or church organization Roman Catholic, or more like the Roman Catholic church:
In the Victorian era, there was panic over the supposed romanization of the Church of England.
[ C or U ]
the act of changing a writing system, or a word or character from that writing system, into Roman script(= a writing system based on the Latin alphabet):
The words were transcribed using the Pinyin system of romanization.
“Kebab” is the romanization of the Persian word meaning literally “fried meats”.
This article uses the Romanizations most commonly used in Taiwanese street signs.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Ancient history: before 500 AD
agora
ancient
ancients
antiquity
archaic
charioteer
Delphi
Delphic
dolmen
Euphrates
gladiator
mummify
neoclassicism
nones
palaeo-
paleographical
Parthenon
scarab
stele
Tigris
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