The Collaborative International Dictionary
Italianize \I*tal"ian*ize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Italianized; p. pr. & vb. n. Italianizing.] [Cf. F. italianiser, It. italianizzare.]
To play the Italian; to speak Italian.
--Cotgrave.To render Italian in any respect; to Italianate. ``An Englishman Italianized.''
--Lowell.
Usage examples of "italianize".
I had helped her to get on the boards the same year that Madame de Valmarana had married her to a French dancer named Binet, whose name she had Italianized by the addition of one syllable, like those who ennoble themselves by adding another syllable to their names.
The demurest of fuliginous intriguers argued that Brail stone was but doing the spiriting required of him, and would have to pay the penalty unrewarded, let him Italianize as much as he pleased.
Thus Carlo Ferromonte is an italianized form of the name of the author's nephew, Karl Isenberg, who assisted Hesse with the music history that is interwoven with the history of the Glass Bead Game.