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romaniˈzation
[f. romanize v.]
1. Assimilation to Roman customs or models.
1876Whitney Study Lang., etc. 167 Italy after its first Romanization. 1885Archaeol. XLIX. 127 We are struck by the evidence they supply of its thoroughgoing Romanization.
2. Alteration under Romance influence.
1899F. H. Sykes Fr. Elem. in M.E. 7 Middle English underwent a romanization of its phrasal power more extensive than..the romanization of its vocabulary.
3. Alteration towards Romanism.
1893Advance (Chicago) 7 Dec., With a view to a state-and-church Romanization of our public school system.
4. Transliteration into Roman characters; adoption of the Roman alphabet.
1894Athenæum 10 Nov. 635/1 He [a Japanese] spends seven years in learning to read and write. Yet romanization, which would reduce the time to a year or so, is scouted by native and foreign scholars alike. 1925C. H. Brewitt-Taylor San Kuo I. p. ii, The Wade system of romanisation, in which the vowels are Italian, has been used. 1934Bull. Int. Hist. & Philol. Acad. Sinica IV. iv. 387 The French system of romanization of Chinese. 1961Amer. Speech XXXVI. iii. 177 Chang Ker Chiu gives both characters and the romanization oín—‘yan for ‘craving for tobacco or opium’. 1963[see Pinyin]. 1973Lancet 14 July 78/1 Even this difficulty is compounded by the fact that there are about a dozen systems of romanisation (e.g., the same point may be described as Ho-ku, He-gu, or Ro-Kou). 1975Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 22 Aug. 5/1 China is preparing to move into..romanization of the written Chinese language. |