lusitanize

English

Alternative forms

• Lusitanize
• lusitanise, Lusitanise (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin Lūsītānusbor.

English Lusitan

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

English lusitanize

From Lusitan [ultimately from Latin Lusitanus (“native or inhabitant of Lusitania (pre-Roman and Roman Portugal, the name of which is used archaistically in New Latin and English in reference to modern Portugal)”)] +‎ -ize (verb-forming suffix).

Partially formed on the model of more common terms like gallicize and partially as a calque of Portuguese lusitanizar, from lusitano (“Lusitanian, Portuguese”) + -izar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluːsɪtənaɪz/

Verb

lusitanize (third-person singular simple present lusitanizes, present participle lusitanizing, simple past and past participle lusitanized)

1. (transitive) To make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.

   Traders and governors attempted to lusitanize Goa and Macao for centuries.

2. (intransitive) To become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.

   Their sandwiches are lusitanized by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.

3. (transitive) To translate or adapt into the Portuguese language.

   The poet Camões used the lusitanized plural form cafres in the fifth canto of his 1572 poem Os Lusíadas.

Synonyms

• Portuguesify

Derived terms

• lusitanization

Translations

to make Portuguese

• French: lusitaniser (fr)
• German: lusitanisieren
• Italian: lusitanizzare

to become Portuguese

• French: se lusitaniser (fr)
• Italian: lusitanizzarsi