different between womanize vs romanize

English

Alternative forms

• womanise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

woman +? -ize

Verb

womanize (third-person singular simple present womanizes, present participle womanizing, simple past and past participle womanized)

1. (intransitive, said of a man) To flirt with and/or seduce, or attempt to seduce, women, especially lecherously.
2. (transitive, usually figuratively) To turn into a woman; to feminize.

Derived terms

• womanizer, womaniser

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• romanise (mainly British)
• Romanize, Romanise

Etymology

Roman +? -ize

Verb

romanize (third-person singular simple present romanizes, present participle romanizing, simple past and past participle romanized)

1. (transitive) To put letters or words written in another writing system into the Latin (Roman) alphabet.

   Synonyms: Latinize, transliterate

   • 1912, Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil, Changing China, New York: D. Appleton, Chapter 10, p. 132,^[2]

     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.”
2. (transitive, historical, usually capitalized) To bring under the authority or influence of Rome.
   • 1658, Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, London: Hen. Brome, Chapter 2, p. 28,^[3]

     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.

3. (transitive, intransitive, usually capitalized) To make or become Roman in character or style.
   • 1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface,^[4]

     […] 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.

   • 1790, Thomas Pennant, Of London, London: Robt. Faulder, p. 8,^[5]

     Long before this period, it [London] was fully romanized, and the customs, manners, buildings, and arts of the conqueror adopted.

4. (transitive, intransitive, usually capitalized) To make or become Roman Catholic in religion (by conversion), character or style.

   Synonym: Latinize

   • 1661, John Corbet, The Interest of England in the Matter of Religion, London: George Thomason, Section 11, p. 50,^[6]

     […] the more primitive times of Protestantism were more leaning to that which Romanizing spirits have called Puritanism.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To fill with Latin words or idioms.

   Synonym: Latinize

   • 1668, John Dryden, Of Dramatick Poesie, London: Henry Herringman, p. 50,^[7]

     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.

Derived terms

• romanization

Translations

References

• “romanize” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• NOAD, 2nd ed.

Anagrams

• armozine

Portuguese

Verb

romanize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of romanizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of romanizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of romanizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of romanizar