Often romanize to write or transliterate in the latin alphabet .
用拉丁字母书写或翻译。
In the late 1500s , the italian jesuit matteo ricci had formulated a system to romanize chinese characters .
在十六世纪末，意大利人、耶稣会会士利玛窦就已经为中国汉字制定了一套罗马化的系统。
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 .
