Meanings
verbTuscanize (third-person singular simple present Tuscanizes, present participle Tuscanizing, simple past and past participle Tuscanized)
present singular third person Tuscanizes · participle present Tuscanizing · participle past Tuscanized · past Tuscanized
- transitiveTo make Tuscan.
Corsica was heavily tuscanized in the Middle Ages, during which native vocabulary may have been lost.
2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 5201 more example
Bembo's arguments were persuasive, and several writers of the age decided to ‘Tuscanize’ their work.
2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin, published 2012, page 31
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