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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