immortalise

See also: immortalisé

English

Alternative forms

• immortalize (US)

Etymology

From immortal +‎ -ise. Perhaps modelled on Middle French immortaliser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪ.ˈmɔː(ɹ).tə.ˌlaɪz/

Verb

1. (British spelling, transitive) To give unending life to, to make immortal.
2. (transitive) To make eternally famous.

   His heroic deeds were immortalised in song and tale.

   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica (in The Guardian, 15 May 2013)[1]

     The clocks at either end of the stadium had just ticked past 92 minutes when Branislav Ivanovic made the run that will immortalise him in Chelsea's history.

Derived terms

• immortalisation

Translations

to give unending life to

• Catalan: immortalitzar (ca)
• Finnish: tehdä kuolemattomaksi
• Indonesian: mengekalkan (id), mengabadikan (id)
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• Latin: aeterno
• Spanish: inmortalizar (es)
• Turkish: ölümsüzleştirmek (tr)

to make eternally famous

• Catalan: immortalitzar (ca)
• Danish: udødeliggøre
• Dutch: vereeuwigen (nl)
• Finnish: ikuistaa
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: uwieczniać impf, uwiecznić (pl) pf, unieśmiertelniać impf, unieśmiertelnić pf, utrwalać (pl) impf, utrwalić (pl) pf, upamiętniać (pl) impf, upamiętnić (pl) pf
• Spanish: inmortalizar (es)
• Turkish: ölümsüzleştirmek (tr)

Anagrams

• memorialist

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: immortalisent, immortalises

Verb

immortalise

1. first-person singular present indicative of immortaliser
2. third-person singular present indicative of immortaliser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of immortaliser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of immortaliser
5. second-person singular imperative of immortaliser