Romanize

To Romanianize.

Verb alt of

  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?’ - 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 381:

Forms

Romanizes Romanizing Romanized

Derived

Romanizer

Verb Entry 2

  1. 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...
    • 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. - 2004, Claude Karnoouh,...

Origin

From Roman(ian) + -ize.

Forms

Romanizes Romanizing Romanized