Latinisation

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Latinisation or Latinization could refer to:

• Latinisation of names, a literary practice of writing a name in a Latin style when writing in Latin
  • List of Latinised names
• the representation of different writing systems in the Roman alphabet, also 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
• Latinization (historical), the spread of Roman culture, law, and language, also referred to as Romanization (cultural)
• 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

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