Thesaurus: latinize
To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin.
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Definitions
- v. t. To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin.
- v. t. To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech.
- v. t. To make like the Roman Catholic Church or diffuse its ideas in; as, to Latinize the Church of England.
- v. i. To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin.
- v. i. To come under the influence of the Romans, or of the Roman Catholic Church.
- v. write in the Latin alphabet
- v. translate into Latin
- v. cause to adopt Catholicism
- 1. To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin. 2. To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech. "Latinized races." Lowell. 3. To make like the Roman Catholic Church or diffuse its ideas in; as, to Latinize the Church of England. To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin. Dryden. 2. To come under the influence of the Romans, or of the Roman Catholic Church.
- To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin. Dryden.
- v. translate into Latin