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Latinize v. i.

To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin.

To come under the influence of the Romans, or of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Etymology of 'Latinize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Latinize" Quotes from Famous Books

... can play at any game. The second is better than the first: to Latinize the surname and not the Christian {56} name is very unscholarlike. The last number mentioned is a thousand millions; all greater numbers are dismissed in half a page. Then follows an accurate distinction between number and multitude—a thing much wanted both ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan

... be made the starting-point of the fast either by the choice of the votary or by the cast of the die. A third method is instanced in the "Popish Kingdom" of Barnabe Googe (1570), actually an English metrical version of a truculent German satire by one Thomas Kirchmeyer, who was scholar enough to Latinize, or Graecize, his homely patronymic into the more imposing correlative "Naogeorgus." ...

— The Customs of Old England • F. J. Snell

Words linked to "Latinize" : latinise, render, convert, catholicize, Romanize, catholicise