Etymology

verbalize

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Today it means: To speak or to use words to express. Full definition →

Middle French verbaliser
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  1. Middle French · borrowed fromverbaliser
  2. English todayverbalize

Partly from Middle French verbaliser and partly from verbal + -ize.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.