romanize

verb5

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

   • The author romanizes Chinese names using the Wade–Giles system rather than the Pinyin system.
2. •
   (historical) To bring under the authority or influence of Rome.
3. •
   To make or become Roman in character or style.

   • […] 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
4. •
   To make or become Roman Catholic in religion (by conversion), character or style.

   • […] the more primitive times of Protestantism were more leaning to that which Romanizing spirits have called Puritanism. — 1661
5. •
   (no longer used) To fill with Latin words or idioms.

verb1

1. •
   To Romanianize.

   • The Romanian Communist Party also decided to extensively Romanize the cities of Transylvania through a slow, but inexorable policy of reducing Hungarian cultural identity and autonomy. — 2004