Romanize

Romanize (third-person singular simple present Romanizes, present participle Romanizing, simple past and past participle Romanized)

1. 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?’

From Roman(ian) +‎ -ize.

Romanize (third-person singular simple present Romanizes, present participle Romanizing, simple past and past participle Romanized)

1. (transitive) To Romanianize.
   • 1990 November 12, Celestine Bohlen, “Ethnic Rivalries Revive in East Europe”, in The New York Times‎, 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.

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