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Latinisation or Latinization can refer to:
- Linguistic Latinisation, the process of spread and adoption of Latin language in general, including:
- Lexical Latinisation, the imposition of Latinisms (Latin-based words, terms or grammatical structures) onto another language, including the Latinisation of names (the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a Latin style)
- Orthographic Latinisation, representation of different writing systems in the Latin alphabet, often called romanisation
- Orthographic Latinisation of Greek, representation of Greek script in the Latin alphabet
- Orthographic Latinisation of Cyrillic, representation of Cyrillic script in the Latin alphabet
- Orthographic Latinisation of Arabic, representation of Arabic script in the Latin alphabet
- Orthographic Latinisation of Chinese, representation of Chinese script in the Latin alphabet
- Orthographic Latinisation of Japanese, representation of Japanese script in the Latin alphabet
- Orthographic Latinisation in the Soviet Union, the campaign in the USSR during the 1920s and 1930s to replace traditional writing systems for numerous languages with the Latin alphabet
- Cultural Latinisation, as part of Cultural Romanisation, the spread of Ancient Roman culture, including the spread of Latin language
- Liturgical Latinisation, the adoption of practices from Latin Christianity by the non-Latin Christians
Biology
- the giving of Greek or Latin binomial names to identified species; see binomial nomenclature
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