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English
Verb
latinize (third-person singular simple present latinizes, present participle latinizing, simple past and past participle latinized)
- (now nonstandard) Alternative letter-case form of Latinize
1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of Vanitie”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book III, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC, page 589:But Theophrastus a Philoſopher ſo delicate, ſo modeft and ſo wife, was he not forced by reaſon, to dare to vtter this verſe, latinized by Cicero: / Vitam regit fortuna non ſapientia. / Fortune our life doth rule, / Not wiſedome of the ſchoole.
1884–1928, “Accurse, v.”, in James A H Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume I, London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 70, column 2:As a-curse is not found before the 12th c., the prefix does not here represent an older ar- or an-, but is imitated from the a- into which both of these had then sunk, and was apparently intensive, as in wake, a-wake, rise, a-rise. In 5, when the scribes latinized the Fr[ench] prefix a- before c to ac-, they servilely did the same with a-curse, whence the false spelling ac-curse.
Portuguese
Verb
latinize
- inflection of latinizar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative