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re-Latinizing

re-Latinizing is the present participle and gerund of re-Latinize.

Meaning of re-Latinize

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To Latinize again.
    • It was Leonardo Bruni (ca. 1369–1444) who had begun the transplantation of the medieval Aristotelian corpus into a Latin conforming to the new humanist standards and hence appealing to a readership educated by humanists. […] Meanwhile, as Bruni's reputation grew, other humanists had begun to...1999, Brian P. Copenhaver, “Aristotelianisms”, in Richard H. Popkin, editor, The Columbia History of Western Philosophy, New York, NY: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 288

Questions about re-Latinizing

What is re-Latinizing the present participle and gerund of?
Re-Latinizing is the present participle and gerund of re-Latinize.

Words near re-Latinizing in the dictionary

  1. re-Latinises
  2. re-Latinising
  3. re-Latinize
  4. re-Latinized
  5. re-Latinizes
  6. re-Latinizing
  7. re-lay
  8. re-laying
  9. re-lays
  10. re-lease
  11. re-leased

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