epitomize

English

Alternative forms

• epitomise (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

epitome +‎ -ize

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈpɪt.əˌmaɪz/

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Verb

epitomize (third-person singular simple present epitomizes, present participle epitomizing, simple past and past participle epitomized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. To make an epitome of; to shorten; to condense.
2. To be an epitome of.
   • 1997, Michael Moortgat, “Categorial Type Logics”, in J. van Benthem, A. ter Meulen, editors, Handbook of Logic and Language, page 99:

     The framework of Combinatory Categorial Grammar epitomizes the rule-based generalized categorial architecture.

Synonyms

• sum up

Derived terms

• epitomization
• epitomizer

 

Related terms

• epitomistic
• epitomy

 

Translations

make an epitome

• Dutch: excerperen (nl), samenvatten (nl)
• French: résumer (fr)
• Hungarian: összefoglal (hu), összegez (hu), kivonatol (hu), tömörít (hu)
• Portuguese: epitomizar
• Serbo-Croatian: ut(j)eloviti, ovaplotiti (sh), ot(j)eloviti
• Swedish: sammanfatta (sv)

be an epitome

• Dutch: belichamen (nl), in (nl) zich (nl) verenigen (nl)
• French: incarner (fr)
• German: verkörpern (de)
• Hungarian: megtestesít (hu)
• Norwegian: personifisere
• Occitan: representar (oc), incarnar (oc), personificar (oc)
• Portuguese: incarnar, personificar (pt), representar (pt)
• Swedish: representera (sv), personifiera (sv)

Portuguese

Verb

epitomize

1. inflection of epitomizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative