transliterate

verb
/tɹænzˈlɪtəɹeɪt/

Etymology

From Latin transliterātum, past participle of transliterō, from trans (“across”) + literō , from littera (“letter”).

  1. derived from transliterātum

Definitions

  1. To represent letters or words in the characters of another writing system.

    • In German, the ß character is called eszett. It’s used in “Straße,” the word for street, and in the expletive “Scheiße.” It’s often transliterated as “ss,” and strangely enough, it’s never had an official uppercase counterpart.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for transliterate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA