Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cardinalize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: car-di-nal-ize
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).

verb

To exalt to the office of a cardinal.

verb

To turn red, like the robes of a cardinal.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"It hath been before shewed, by the Judgment of the Cardinalized Jesuit, That the Bishops of Rome have no temporal Possessions at all"
"the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and crayfishes, which are cardinalised with boyling"

Etymology

From cardinal + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: cardinal

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

cardinalizes (present, singular) cardinalizing (participle, present) cardinalized (participle, past) cardinalized (past)

Derived Forms

cardinalization

Frequently Paired Words

ordinalize

Questions

What does cardinalize mean?: to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).
Where does cardinalize come from?: From cardinal + -ize.

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