Often romanize to write or transliterate in the latin alphabet .
用拉丁字母書寫或翻譯。
In the late 1500s , the italian jesuit matteo ricci had formulated a system to romanize chinese characters .
在十六世紀末,意大利人、耶穌會會士利瑪竇就已經為中國漢字制定了一套羅馬化的系統。
By the early third century , there were not so many communities left to romanize in the west and the ruling class of the greek east had become fully assimilated into the system through viritane grants of citizenship .