Romanize vs Romanticize - What's the difference?
romanize | romanticize |
To put letters or words written in another writing system into the Latin (Roman) alphabet.
(historical) To bring under the authority or influence of Rome.
To make Roman or Roman Catholic in disposition.
To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms.
To interpret or view something in a romantic (unrealistic, idealized) manner.
To think or act in a romantic manner.
As verbs the difference between romanize and romanticize
is that romanize is to put letters or words written in another writing system into the Latin (Roman) alphabet while romanticize is to interpret or view something in a romantic (unrealistic, idealized) manner.romanize
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Alternative forms
* romanise (mainly British)Verb
(romaniz)- (Dryden)