Etymology

spiritize

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Today it means: To imbue with a spirit or soul. Full definition →

English spirit ← Middle English spirit ← Old French espirit
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)peys-der.?
  2. Latinspīrō
  3. Latinspīritu
  4. Old Frenchespirit
  5. Middle Englishspirit
  6. Englishspirit
  7. English todayspiritize

From spirit + -ize.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.