transliterate
verb/tɹænzˈlɪtəɹeɪt/
Etymology From Latin transliterātum, past participle of transliterō, from trans (“across”) + literō , from littera (“letter”).
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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.2017 July 20, Thu-Huong Ha, “Germany has ended a century-long debate over a missing letter in its alphabet”, in Quartz:
- Derived terms
- back-transliterate, mistransliterate, retransliterate, transliterable, transliteratable
- Related terms
- transliteral, transliterally, transliteration, transliterator, transcribe