Latinize

Quick meaning: Latinize is a verb meaning (now nonstandard) Alternative letter-case form of Latinize.

Meaning

(now nonstandard) Alternative letter-case form of Latinize.

Example Sentences

But Theophrastus a Philoſopher ſo delicate, ſo modeft and ſo wife, was he not forced by reaſon, to dare to vtter this verſe, latinized by Cicero: / Vitam regit fortuna non ſapientia. / Fortune our life doth rule, / Not wiſedome of the ſchoole.

As a-curse is not found before the 12th c., the prefix does not here represent an older ar- or an-, but is imitated from the a- into which both of these had then sunk, and was apparently intensive, as in wake, a-wake, rise, a-rise. In 5, when the scribes latinized the Fr[ench] prefix a- before c to ac-, they servilely did the same with a-curse, whence the false spelling ac-curse.

Word Forms

• latinizes
• latinizing
• latinized

Synonyms for latinize

Depending on context, synonyms include romanize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include romanize, relatinise, relatinize, romanise, lingualize, lusitanize.

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