latinize
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Is latinize a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To translate something into the Latin language; or make a word similar in appearance or form to a Latin word.Examples: "Guglielmus is a Latinized form of William."transitive
2. (transitive) To transliterate something into the characters of the Latin script; to RomanizeExamples: "The Cyrillic letter Л can be Latinized as L."transitive
3. (transitive) To render or become Roman Catholic in form or style or to diffuse Roman Catholic ideas in something.Examples: "to Latinize the Church of England"transitive
verb (English)
1. (now nonstandard) Alternative letter-case form of Latinize.Examples: "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."alt-ofnonstandard
Definition source: Wiktionary