latinize

UK /ˈlæt.ɪ.naɪz/ US /ˈlæt.ɪn.aɪz/
verb 4

Definitions

verb

1

To translate something into the Latin language; or make a word similar in appearance or form to a Latin word.

Guglielmus is a Latinized form of William.

2

To transliterate something into the characters of the Latin script; to Romanize

The Cyrillic letter Л can be Latinized as L.

3

To render or become Roman Catholic in form or style or to diffuse Roman Catholic ideas in something.

to Latinize the Church of England

verb

1

Alternative letter-case form of Latinize.

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.

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