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Bring under Roman influence
Answer for the clue "Bring under Roman influence ", 8 letters:
latinize
Word definitions for latinize in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. write in the latin alphabet; "many shops in Japan now carry neon signs with Romanized names" [syn: Romanize , Romanise , latinise ] translate into Latin cause to adopt catholicism [syn: catholicize , catholicise , latinise ]
Wiktionary
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vb. (context nonstandard English) (alternative case form of Latinize English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Latinize \Lat"in*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Latinized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Latinizing .] [L. latinizare: cf. F. latiniser.] To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin. To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or ...
Usage examples of latinize.
In this I agree with Robert Fagles in his 1990 translation that while these more latinized versions are farther from the Greek—Hektor versus Akhilleus and the Akhaians and the Argeioi—the more faithful version sometimes sounds like a cat coughing up a hairball.
West of the Rhine, most of these German peoples had learnt to speak various Latinized dialects which fused at last to form French.
L) had been advanced, anq it was the Latinized form of the name that was adopted, Insii1'" *c one of a group of hormones that acts to coordinate the thousands of different chemical reactions that are constantly proceeding within living tissue.
Linné), but he is remembered now by the Latinized form Carolus Linnaeus.
That battle not only halted the eastward expansion of the Roman Empire and began its downward spiral, it left Germany free to develop its own culture without the latinizing influence that so dominated other Western European cultures.
In 1568 the Flemish geographer Gerhard Kremer (better known by the Latinized version of his last name, Mercator) put out a map of the world plotted in such a way that the rhumb lines were straight.