naturalize
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French naturaliser. By surface analysis, natural + -ize.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈnæt͡ʃəɹəˌlaɪz/, /ˈnæt͡ʃɹəˌlaɪz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]naturalize (third-person singular simple present naturalizes, present participle naturalizing, simple past and past participle naturalized)
- (transitive) To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen.
- 1964, Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, “History”, in Japan: Its Land, People and Culture[1], Revised edition, Printing Bureau, Ministry of Finance, →OCLC, page 20, column 2:
- Pakche was destroyed and five years later, Kokuryo was also swept away by T’ang and Silla. T’ang set up An-tontu-hu-fu (Government headquarters) at P’ing jang to rule the former territories of Pakche and Kokuryo. Many refugees from these destroyed states came to Japan and became naturalized as Japanese.
- (transitive) To acclimatize an animal or plant.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 8, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
- Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
- To make natural.
- Custom naturalizes labour or study.
- (transitive) To limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones and exclude supernatural ones.
- (linguistics, transitive) To make (a word) a natural part of the language, using the native homologue of each phoneme (and often for each morpheme) of the imported word (e.g., native inflections).
- Synonym: paronymize
- Hyponym: anglicise
- In English, foreign words are typically written in italics until they are naturalized.
- English speakers have naturalized the French word "café".
- English orthography often (but not invariably) drops the diacritics from words that it has naturalized from other languages.
- (transitive, intransitive) To study nature.
- 1854, Somerton, The heiress of Somerton, page 226:
- Well, any way, Doctor, we will make an appointment for a whole day here next spring ; we will botanize, herbarize and naturalize to our hearts' content, from morn till night."
Antonyms
[edit]- denaturalize, exile (verb), expatriate (verb), other (verb), supernaturalize
Derived terms
[edit]- naturalized (adj), naturalization
Translations
[edit]to grant citizenship
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to acclimatize an animal or plant — see acclimatize
to make to natural
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to limit explanations of a phenomenon to naturalistic ones
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linguistics: to make a natural part of a language
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See also
[edit]- (linguistics): approximation, hyperforeignism, loanword, unadapted borrowing
References
[edit]- ^ "naturalize" in Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc.
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