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Latinize, v.|ˈlætɪnaɪz|
[ad. L. latīnizāre, f. Latīnus Latin: see -ize.]
1. trans. To turn into Latin, to write in Latin, to give a Latin form to (a word, etc., of another language).
1589Nashe Pref. to Greene's Menaphon (Arb.) 9 That could scarcelie latinize their necke-verse. 1603Florio Montaigne (1634) 555 To vtter this verse, latinized by Cicero. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts 86 Pliny hath latinized that word into æra. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 10 He had a hand in latinizing that..book. 1728N. Salmon in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 361 They took the antient names of Rivers and Provinces, only latinizing them. 1855Trench Eng. Past & Pres. iii. 107 The tendency to latinize our speech received a new impulse from the revival of learning. 1881Athenæum 26 Feb. 294/1 That island..which for ages our geographers have insisted on Latinizing from the Russian Novaya Zemlya into Nova Zembla.
2. To make Latin or Latin-like; to make conformable to the ideas, customs, etc. of the Latins, or to the rites, etc. of the Latin Church.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xxv. (1632) 84 My Father and my Mother learned so much Latine..To be short, we were all so Latinized, that [etc.]. 1682Wheler Journ. Greece i. 31 They make profession of the Greek Religion; but are in most things Latinized, except in Obedience to the Sea of Rome. 1699Wanley in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 273 The help of many such at Rome (being Latiniz'd), father Kircher could not want. 1866Cornhill Mag. May 539 Gaul was Latinized in language, manners, and laws, and yet her people remained essentially Celtic. 1882–3G. Washburn in Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 549 The Roman Catholic Church has..made great efforts to Latinize its Oriental branches.
3. To transcribe in Latin characters.
1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. ii. i. §7 These sprinklings of Greek in mediæval writings, whether in their proper characters or latinised.
4. intr. To use Latin forms, idioms, etc.
1642,1724[see Latinizing ppl. a.]. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. vii. 246 Marke who writ his Gospell at Rome did Latinize and wrote it ναζαρήνος. 1697Dryden Ded. æneis (near end), I will not excuse but justify myself for one pretended crime.. that I latinize too much. 1849Ticknor Sp. Lit. II. 485 note, He Latinizes less in the poems that follow, because it is more difficult to do it in verse. 1892Guardian 18 May 743/2 Some of the correctors Latinise strongly. Ibid. 743/3 The MS. quite certainly does not Latinise but Graecises.
Hence ˈLatinized ppl. a.; ˈLatinizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1738 I. 127 The lofty nakedness of your latinizing Barbarian. 1724Waterland Athan. Creed 96 It is plain from the copy it self, that it was no Latinizing Greek that made it. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. i. 16 note, Durius is merely the latinized Dur. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. vii. ii. §9 A Latinised phraseology. 1849Ticknor Sp. Lit. III. 350 They had fled from the ruins of the Latinized kingdom of the Goths. 1853Kingsley Hypatia ix. 109 They spoke with sneers of Augustine's Latinizing tendencies. 1870Lowell Study Wind. (1886) 329 It was of Latinising in this sense that Dryden was guilty. 1896Tablet 9 May 725 The outcry against Latinizing is a favourite battle-cry. |