Romanize
See also: romanize
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]Romanize (third-person singular simple present Romanizes, present participle Romanizing, simple past and past participle Romanized)
- Alternative form of romanize.
- 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 381:
- ‘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?’
Etymology 2
[edit]From Roman(ian) + -ize.
Verb
[edit]Romanize (third-person singular simple present Romanizes, present participle Romanizing, simple past and past participle Romanized)
- (transitive) To Romanianize.
- 1990 November 12, Celestine Bohlen, “Ethnic Rivalries Revive in East Europe”, in The New York Times[1], section A, page 1:
- 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.
- 2004, Claude Karnoouh, “Multiculturalism and Ethnic Relations in Transylvania”, in Henry F. Carey, editor, Romania Since 1989: Politics, Economics, and Society, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 248:
- The Romanian Communist Party also decided to extensively Romanize the cities of Transylvania through a slow, but inexorable policy of reducing Hungarian cultural identity and autonomy.