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Definition of Latinize in English: Latinize(British Latinise) verb ˈlatɪnʌɪzˈlætnˌaɪz [with object]1Give a Latin or Latinate form to (a word) 使（词）拉丁化 his name was Latinized into Confucius 他的名字被拉丁化为Confucius。 Example sentencesExamples - I'm not quite sure why he felt the need to Latinise the names of his fallacies but I suspect it put more people off reading the article than it encouraged.
- Possibly the most famous musical instruments of all are the violins produced by the Italian craftsman Antonio Stradivari, better known by the Latinised name, Stradivarius.
- The shortened, Latinised version of his name became Sancte Claus, which led to the obvious name of Santa Claus.
- Colchester, whose name was now Latinized to Camulodunum, became the site of a substantial fortress for the Twentieth Legion.
- Abraham Ortel, known by his Latinised name of Ortelius, was born in Antwerp on 4 April 1527.
- Jabir ibn Aflah is often known by the Latinised form of his name, namely Geber.
- 1.1archaic Translate into Latin.
〈古〉译成拉丁文 he had a hand in Latinizing that book - 1.2archaic no object Use Latin forms or idiom.
〈古〉用拉丁语形式（或习语） she Latinizes less in the poems that follow
2Make (a people) conform to the ideas and customs of the ancient Romans, the Latin peoples, or the Latin Church. 使（民族，文化）拉丁化（指趋同古罗马人 或拉丁民族、拉丁教会的思想和习俗） Example sentencesExamples - It was the winter of rebellion as the Marthomite Christians decided to resist what they called attempts to ‘Latinise’ the church in Kerala.
- Latin Americans don't want to Latinize the United States - they want to Americanize their own countries.
- Jupiter promises to add the Teucrian rituals and mores, but to Latinize them.
Derivativesnoun latɪnʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n His full name was Johannes Chrysostomos Wolfgang Theophilus, Amadeus being a Latinization of the Greek Theophilus; but he usually styled himself ‘Wolfgang Amadè Mozart’. Example sentencesExamples - We are going through a process of Latinization.
- Not only are Hispanics transforming the United States in a process of Latinization, but also Latinos are being transformed by the United States in a process of Americanization.
- The fact that South Americans now do the work is part of a larger phenomenon, the Latinization of the American West.
- ‘There's a Latinization of America but there's also an Americanization of Latinos,’ he says.
noun 16th and 17th century scholars (the Latinisers) changed the spelling of many words to make words, as they thought, reveal their classical origin, but they made many mistakes. Example sentencesExamples - As for the Latinisers, a curse on them and their fruits - the ‘b’ in doubt and debt, the ‘s’ in island.
- And the Apostles Methodius and Cyril, Greeks by origin, but in communication with Rome, are claimed, wrongly, by the Latinisers as their own.
- The same argument can be applied to those who oppose the Latin Mass, or to the Latinisers who oppose the full authentic Byzantine Liturgy with all its glorious ceremonial!
- Though Johnson is said to be the great Latinizer of English, English never did get Latinized.
OriginLate 16th century: from late Latin Latinizare, from Latin Latinus (see Latin). Definition of Latinize in US English: Latinize(British Latinise) verbˈlatnˌīzˈlætnˌaɪz [with object]1Give a Latin or Latinate form to (a word) 使（词）拉丁化 his name was Latinized into Confucius 他的名字被拉丁化为Confucius。 Example sentencesExamples - Abraham Ortel, known by his Latinised name of Ortelius, was born in Antwerp on 4 April 1527.
- The shortened, Latinised version of his name became Sancte Claus, which led to the obvious name of Santa Claus.
- Jabir ibn Aflah is often known by the Latinised form of his name, namely Geber.
- Possibly the most famous musical instruments of all are the violins produced by the Italian craftsman Antonio Stradivari, better known by the Latinised name, Stradivarius.
- I'm not quite sure why he felt the need to Latinise the names of his fallacies but I suspect it put more people off reading the article than it encouraged.
- Colchester, whose name was now Latinized to Camulodunum, became the site of a substantial fortress for the Twentieth Legion.
- 1.1archaic Translate into Latin.
〈古〉译成拉丁文 - 1.2archaic no object Use Latin forms or idiom.
〈古〉用拉丁语形式（或习语）
2Make (a people or culture) conform to the ideas and customs of the ancient Romans, the Latin peoples, or the Latin Church. 使（民族，文化）拉丁化（指趋同古罗马人 或拉丁民族、拉丁教会的思想和习俗） Example sentencesExamples - Jupiter promises to add the Teucrian rituals and mores, but to Latinize them.
- Latin Americans don't want to Latinize the United States - they want to Americanize their own countries.
- It was the winter of rebellion as the Marthomite Christians decided to resist what they called attempts to ‘Latinise’ the church in Kerala.
OriginLate 16th century: from late Latin Latinizare, from Latin Latinus (see Latin). |