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Latinize v. t. (past & past part. latinized; pres. part. latinizing)

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."

To make like the Roman Catholic Church or diffuse its ideas in; as, to Latinize the Church of England.

To write in the latin alphabet.

Synonyms: Romanize.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Latinize" Quotes from Famous Books

... Canadians—particularly in England—accused of crudity in speech. I confess I like the crudities, the rawness, the colloquialisms. They smack of the new life in a new land. I should be sorry if Canadians ever began to Latinize their sentences, to "can" their speech and pickle it in the vinegar pedantry of the peeved study-chair critic. Because it is a land of mountain pines and cataracts and wild winds, I would have their speech ...

— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut

Words linked to "Latinize" : convert, interpret, catholicise, latinise, catholicize, translate, transcribe