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To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin.

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  1. v. t. To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin.
  2. 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.
  3. v. t. To make like the Roman Catholic Church or diffuse its ideas in; as, to Latinize the Church of England.
  4. v. i. To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin.
  5. v. i. To come under the influence of the Romans, or of the Roman Catholic Church.
  6. v. write in the Latin alphabet
  7. v. translate into Latin
  8. v. cause to adopt Catholicism
  9. 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.
  10. To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin. Dryden.
  11. v. translate into Latin