Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to romanize
Participle: romanized
Gerund: romanizing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | romanize |
| you | romanize |
| he;she;it | romanizes |
| we | romanize |
| you | romanize |
| they | romanize |
Perfect
| I | have romanized |
| you | have romanized |
| he;she;it | has romanized |
| we | have romanized |
| you | have romanized |
| they | have romanized |
Past
| I | romanized |
| you | romanized |
| he;she;it | romanized |
| we | romanized |
| you | romanized |
| they | romanized |
Pluperfect
| I | had romanized |
| you | had romanized |
| he;she;it | had romanized |
| we | had romanized |
| you | had romanized |
| they | had romanized |
Future
| I | will romanize |
| you | will romanize |
| he;she;it | will romanize |
| we | will romanize |
| you | will romanize |
| they | will romanize |
Future Perfect
| I | will have romanized |
| you | will have romanized |
| he;she;it | will have romanized |
| we | will have romanized |
| you | will have romanized |
| they | will have romanized |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | romanize |
| you | romanize |
| he;she;it | romanize |
| we | romanize |
| you | romanize |
| they | romanize |
Perfect
| I | have romanized |
| you | have romanized |
| he;she;it | have romanized |
| we | have romanized |
| you | have romanized |
| they | have romanized |
Imperfect
| I | romanized |
| you | romanized |
| he;she;it | romanized |
| we | romanized |
| you | romanized |
| they | romanized |
Pluperfect
| I | had romanized |
| you | had romanized |
| he;she;it | had romanized |
| we | had romanized |
| you | had romanized |
| they | had romanized |
Conditional
Present
| I | would romanize |
| you | would romanize |
| he;she;it | would romanize |
| we | would romanize |
| you | would romanize |
| they | would romanize |
Perfect
| I | would have romanized |
| you | would have romanized |
| he;she;it | would have romanized |
| we | would have romanized |
| you | would have romanized |
| they | would have romanized |
Imperative
| you | romanize |
| we | Let's romanize |
| you | romanize |
Verbs conjugated like 'romanize'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'romanize'
romanise,
Romanize,
womanize,
aromatize,
botanize,
hominize,
humanize,
Koranize,
nomadize,
Omanize,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English Roman
3. Proto-Indo-European *-id-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
5. Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
6. Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
7. Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
8. Late Latin -izōder.
9. Middle French -iserbor.
10. Middle English -isen
11. English -ize
12. English romanize
13. From Roman + -ize.
Sample Sentences
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The author romanizes Chinese names using the Wade–Giles system rather than the Pinyin system.
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A new system has been invented by which Chinese can be written in our letters as pronounced. This is called by the rather uncouth name of “Romanised.” [1912, Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil, chapter 10, in Changing China,, New York: D. Appleton, page 132:]
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Some of the Chinese students had difficulty comprehending the need to Romanize the Chinese etymons. [2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 147:]
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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. [1658, Thomas Browne, chapter 2, in Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, London: Hen. Brome, page 28:]
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[…] 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. [1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface:]
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Long before this period, it [London] was fully romanized, and the customs, manners, buildings, and arts of the conqueror adopted. [1790, Thomas Pennant, Of London, London: Robt. Faulder, page 8:]
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[…] the more primitive times of Protestantism were more leaning to that which Romanizing spirits have called Puritanism. [1661, John Corbet, The Interest of England in the Matter of Religion, London: George Thomason, Section 11, p. 50:]
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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. [1668, John Dryden, Of Dramatick Poesie, London: Henry Herringman, page 50:]