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Latinise

Latinise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Latinize.

Meaning of Latinize

Verb

Latinize (third-person singular simple present Latinizes, present participle Latinizing, simple past and past participle Latinized)

  1. (transitive) To translate something into the Latin language; or make a word similar in appearance or form to a Latin word.
    • Guglielmus is a Latinized form of William.
  2. (transitive) To transliterate something into the characters of the Latin script; to Romanize
    • The Cyrillic letter Л can be Latinized as L.
  3. (transitive) To render or become Roman Catholic in form or style or to diffuse Roman Catholic ideas in something.
    • to Latinize the Church of England

Forms of Latinise

third-person singular presentLatinises
present participleLatinising
past participleLatinised
pastLatinised

Words formed from Latinise

Questions about Latinise

What is Latinise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Latinise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Latinize.

Words near Latinise in the dictionary

  1. Latinesque
  2. latinhood
  3. latinidad
  4. Latinisation
  5. Latinisations
  6. Latinise
  7. Latinised
  8. Latinises
  9. Latinising
  10. Latinism
  11. Latinisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Latinise (page history and authors); Latinize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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