latinize
/ˈlæt.ɪn.aɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To translate something into the Latin language; or make a word similar in appearance or form to a Latin word.
Transitive verb
verb
To transliterate something into the characters of the Latin script; to Romanize
Transitive verb
verb
To render or become Roman Catholic in form or style or to diffuse Roman Catholic ideas in something.
Transitive verb
verb
Alternative letter-case form of Latinize.
Example Sentences
- "Guglielmus is a Latinized form of William."
- "The Cyrillic letter Л can be Latinized as L."
- "to Latinize the Church of England"
- "But Theophrastus a Philoſopher ſo delicate, ſo modeft and ſo wife, was he not forced by reaſon, to dare to vtter this verſe, latinized by Cicero: / Vitam regit fortuna non ſapientia. / Fortune our life doth rule, / Not wiſedome of the ſchoole."
- "As a-curse is not found before the 12th c., the prefix does not here represent an older ar- or an-, but is imitated from the a- into which both of these had then sunk, and was apparently intensive, as in wake, a-wake, rise, a-rise. In 5, when the scribes latinized the Fr[ench] prefix a- before c to ac-, they servilely did the same with a-curse, whence the false spelling ac-curse."
Etymology
From Latin latīnizō. By surface analysis, Latin + -ize.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: latīnizō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlæt.ɪn.aɪz/
- British English: /ˈlæt.ɪ.naɪz/