latinize

present singular third person latinizes · participle present latinizing · participle past latinized · past latinized

1. nonstandardAlternative letter-case form of Latinize.

   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.

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of Vanitie”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book III, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 589

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   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.

   1884–1928, “Accurse, v.”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I, London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 70, column 2

present singular third person Latinizes · participle present Latinizing · participle past Latinized · past Latinized · alternative Latinise · alternative nonstandard latinize

1. transitiveTo translate something into the Latin language; or make a word similar in appearance or form to a Latin word.

   Guglielmus is a Latinized form of William.

2. transitiveTo transliterate something into the characters of the Latin script; to Romanize

   The Cyrillic letter Л can be Latinized as L.

3. transitiveTo render or become Roman Catholic in form or style or to diffuse Roman Catholic ideas in something.

   to Latinize the Church of England