Crossword clues for latinize
latinize
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Latinize \Lat"in*ize\, v. i.
To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin.
--Dryden.
2. To come under the influence of the Romans, or of the Roman Catholic Church.
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 Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech. ``Latinized races.''
--Lowell.To make like the Roman Catholic Church or diffuse its ideas in; as, to Latinize the Church of England.
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to write in the latin alphabet.
Syn: Romanize.
Wiktionary
vb. (context nonstandard English) (alternative case form of Latinize English)
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]
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.
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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.