tatamiser

From tatami +‎ -iser, from Japanese 畳 (“tatami mat”).

• IPA^(key): /ta.ta.mi.ze/

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tatamiser

1. (informal) to be or to become Japanese in culture or style; to Japanize
   • 1991, Bernard Quemada, quoting Madame Figaro (July 7, 1990), Matériaux pour l'histoire du vocabulaire français: Néologismes du français contemporain [Materials for the study of French vocabulary: Contemporary French neologisms], volume 37, page 305:

     Dès lors, elle est saisie d’une rage d’apprendre: non pour denevir japonaise, se ‘tatamiser’ comme disent les Occidentaux, mais pour comprendre et communiquer.

     From that time, she was seized with a passion to learn: not to become Japanese, to ‘nipponize’ as they say in the West, but to understand and communicate.

   • 2012, Régis Arnaud, “François Caron: le premier Français converti au Japon [François Caron: the first French convert to Japanese]”, in Le Figaro‎:

     François Caron, lui, au contraire, se «tatamise», apprend le japonais et fonde un foyer avec une autochtone, à qui il fait six enfants.

     François Caron, on the contrary, ‘Japanizes’; he learns Japanese and makes his home with a local woman, with whom he has six children.

• → Japanese: タタミゼ (tatamize)