What does lusitanize mean?
Lusitanize means (transitive) To make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like..
Traders and governors attempted to lusitanize Goa and Macao for centuries.
Their sandwiches are lusitanized by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.
The poet Camões used the lusitanized plural form cafres in the fifth canto of his 1572 poem Os Lusíadas.
Use lusitanize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lusitanize means (transitive) To make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like..
Common synonyms include Portuguesify.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Traders and governors attempted to lusitanize Goa and Macao for centuries.
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