latinize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb write in the Latin alphabet
    Romanise; Latinise; Romanize.
    • many shops in Japan now carry neon signs with Romanized names
  2. verb translate into Latin
  3. verb cause to adopt Catholicism
    catholicise; catholicize; latinise.

WordNet

Lat"in*ize transitive verb
Etymology
L. latinizare: cf. F.latiniser.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Latinized ; present participle & verbal noun Latinizing
Definitions
  1. To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin.
  2. To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech. "Latinized races." Lowell.
  3. To make like the Roman Catholic Church or diffuse its ideas in; as, to Latinize the Church of England.
Lat"in*ize intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin. Dryden.
  2. To come under the influence of the Romans, or of the Roman Catholic Church.

Webster 1913