Latinise

See also: latinise and latinisé

English

Verb

Latinise (third-person singular simple present Latinises, present participle Latinising, simple past and past participle Latinised)

  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Latinize.
    • 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “[Popular Fallacies.] VIII. That Verbal Allusions Are Not Wit, Because They Will Not Bear a Translation.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. [], London: Edward Moxon, [], →OCLC, page 239:
      To Latinise a pun, we must seek a pun in Latin, that will answer to it; as, to give an idea of the double endings in Hudibras, we must have recourse to a similar practice in the old monkish doggrel.

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