lusitanize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Traders and governors attempted to lusitanize Goa and Macao for centuries."
- "Their sandwiches are lusitanized by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste."
- "The poet Camões used the lusitanized plural form cafres in the fifth canto of his 1572 poem Os Lusíadas."
Etymology
From Lusitanian + -ize, ultimately from Latin Lusitania (“pre-Roman and Roman Portugal”), used archaistically in New Latin and English in reference to modern Portugal. Partially formed on the model of more common terms like gallicize and partially as a calque of Portuguese lusitanizar, from lusitano (“Lusitanian, Portuguese”) + -izar.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Lusitania, lusitanizar
- Suffix: Lusitanian