Latinisation

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Latinisation or Latinization can refer to:

• Latinisation, the imposition of Latinisms (Latin-based terms or grammatical structures) onto another language
  • Latinisation of names, the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a Latin style
  • List of Latinised names
• Representation of different writing systems in the Roman alphabet, more often called romanization or romanisation
  • Latinisation (USSR), the campaign in the USSR during the 1920s and 1930s to replace traditional writing systems for numerous languages with the Latin alphabet
• Romanization (cultural), the spread of Roman culture, law, and language
• Liturgical Latinisation, the adoption of practices from Western Christianity by the Eastern Churches

Biology

• the giving of Greek or Latin binomial names to identified species; see binomial nomenclature