latinization
- noun
- /ˌlætɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Specialized
- The government announced a plan for the latinization of official documents previously written in Cyrillic.
Examples
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The latinization of the city's street names helped tourists find their way more easily.
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Many scholars study the latinization of ancient texts.
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Many languages have undergone latinization to make them accessible to a wider audience.
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The latinization of names can help with pronunciation.
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The latinization of the city's street names helped tourists find their way more easily.
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Many languages have undergone latinization to make them accessible to a wider audience.
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The government announced a plan for the latinization of official documents previously written in Cyrillic.
Synonyms
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7.0
Writing words from one alphabet using letters of another alphabet
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6.7
Writing a language using Latin letters instead of its original script
Surface Forms
Morphology
latinization = latinize (semi-transparent) = latin + ize + ation
The form is regular, but the specialized transliteration sense of latinize is not fully predictable from the components alone.
Etymology
Latinization comes from Latin plus the ending -ization, meaning 'the process of'. A helpful way to remember this sense is to think of writing names or words from other scripts with Latin letters (for example, writing a Cyrillic or Chinese name with Latin letters), so latinization here means converting text into the Latin alphabet.