latinize

latinize is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 19 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin.
2. transitive verb. To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech.
3. transitive verb. To make like the Roman Catholic Church or diffuse its ideas in; as, to Latinize the Church of England.
4. intransitive verb. To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin.
5. intransitive verb. To come under the influence of the Romans, or of the Roman Catholic Church.
6. verb. cause to adopt Catholicism

   Synonyms: catholicise, catholicize, latinise

7. verb. translate into Latin
8. verb. write in the Latin alphabet

   "many shops in Japan now carry neon signs with Romanized names"

   Synonyms: latinise, romanise, romanize

Synonyms

catholicise, catholicize, latinise, romanise, romanize

Common word forms

latinized, latinizer, latinizes, latinizing

Words from these letters

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