romanize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To put letters or words written in another writing system into the Latin (Roman) alphabet. transitive
    — The author romanizes Chinese names using the Wade–Giles system rather than the Pinyin system.
  2. To bring under the authority or influence of Rome. capitalized,historical,transitive,usually
    — But since this custome was probably disused before their Invasion or Conquest, and the Romanes confessedly practised the same, since their possession of this Island, the most assured account will fall upon the Romanes, or Brittains Romanized.
  3. To make or become Roman in character or style. ambitransitive,capitalized,usually
    — […] perhaps he has Romaniz’d his Grecian Dames too much, and made them speak sometimes as if they had been born in the City of Rome, and under the Empire of Augustus.
  4. To make or become Roman Catholic in religion (by conversion), character or style. ambitransitive,capitalized,usually
    — […] the more primitive times of Protestantism were more leaning to that which Romanizing spirits have called Puritanism.
  5. To fill with Latin words or idioms. obsolete,transitive
    — perhaps too, he [Ben Jonson] did a little to much Romanize our Tongue, leaving the words which he translated almost as much Latine as he found them: wherein though he learnedly followed the Idiom of their language, he did not enough comply with ours.

词形变化

romanizes present,singular,third-person romanizing participle,present romanized participle,past romanized past romanise alternative Romanize alternative Romanise alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
misromanize mis-romanize romanization

词源

Etymology tree
English Roman
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English romanize
From Roman + -ize.
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