lusitanize

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/ˈluːsɪtənaɪz/

verb

To make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.

“Traders and governors attempted to lusitanize Goa and Macao for centuries.”

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Portuguesify
OriginLatin Lusitanus ← Portuguese lusitanizar →
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Meanings

verblusitanize (third-person singular simple present lusitanizes, present participle lusitanizing, simple past and past participle lusitanized)

present singular third person lusitanizes · participle present lusitanizing · participle past lusitanized · past lusitanized · alternative Lusitanize · alternative lusitanise · alternative Lusitanise

  1. transitiveTo make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.

    Traders and governors attempted to lusitanize Goa and Macao for centuries.

  2. intransitiveTo become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.

    Their sandwiches are lusitanized by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.

  3. transitiveTo translate or adapt into the Portuguese language.

    The poet Camões used the lusitanized plural form cafres in the fifth canto of his 1572 poem Os Lusíadas.

Synonyms & antonyms

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Portuguesify
Also see
portuguesify

Origin

  1. Portugueselusitanizar
  2. LatinLusitanus“native or inhabitant of Lusitania (pre-Roman and Roman Portugal, the name of which is used archaistically in New Latin and English in reference to modern Portugal)”
  3. Englishlusitanize

From Lusitan [ultimately from Latin Lusitanus (“native or inhabitant of Lusitania (pre-Roman and Roman Portugal, the name of which is used archaistically in New Latin and English in reference to modern Portugal)”)] + -ize (verb-forming suffix). Partially formed on the model of more common terms like gallicize and partially as a calque of Portuguese lusitanizar, from lusitano (“Lusitanian, Portuguese”) + -izar.

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Translations

French lusitaniser, se lusitaniser
  • lusitaniserto make Portuguese
  • se lusitaniserto become Portuguese
German lusitanisieren
  • lusitanisierento make Portuguese
Italian lusitanizzare, lusitanizzarsi
  • lusitanizzareto make Portuguese
  • lusitanizzarsito become Portuguese
Cite this entry
APA

lusitanize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lusitanize

MLA

“lusitanize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lusitanize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lusitanize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lusitanize.

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