lusitanize
lusitanize verb: to make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
Verb
lusitanize (third-person singular simple present lusitanizes, present participle lusitanizing, simple past and past participle lusitanized)
- To make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
- Traders and governors attempted to lusitanize Goa and Macao for centuries.
- To become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
- Their sandwiches are lusitanized by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.
- To translate or adapt into the Portuguese language.
- The poet Camões used the lusitanized plural form cafres in the fifth canto of his 1572 poem Os Lusíadas.
Synonyms of lusitanize
Forms of lusitanize
| third-person singular present | lusitanizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | lusitanizing |
| past participle | lusitanized |
| past | lusitanized |
| alternative form | Lusitanize |
| alternative form | lusitanise |
| alternative form | Lusitanise |
Origin of lusitanize
From Lusitanian + -ize, ultimately from Latin Lusitania (“pre-Roman and Roman Portugal”), used archaistically in New Latin and English in reference to modern Portugal. Partially formed on the model of more common terms like gallicize and partially as a calque of Portuguese lusitanizar, from lusitano (“Lusitanian, Portuguese”) + -izar.
Words formed from lusitanize
Questions about lusitanize
- What does lusitanize mean?
- Lusitanize means to make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
- What part of speech is lusitanize?
- Lusitanize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of lusitanize?
- The past tense of lusitanize is lusitanized.
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