politicize

English

Alternative forms

• politicise (British)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English politic

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

English politicize

From politic + -ize.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pə-lĭt'ĭsīz', IPA^(key): /pəˈlɪtɪˌsaɪz/

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Verb

politicize (third-person singular simple present politicizes, present participle politicizing, simple past and past participle politicized)

1. (intransitive) To engage in or discuss politics.
2. (transitive) To give something political characteristics; to turn into a political issue.

   My parents started politicizing the weather as soon as they opened their snowplow business.

3. (transitive) To make someone politically active or aware.
   • 1977 December 24, Richard Burns, “It Was a 'Big Splash' at The Aquarium”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 25, page 9:

     The possibility of setting up an educational arm which could politicize gays in Massachusetts through a series of seminars and through the publication of a booklet providing a background on the history of gay rights.

Synonyms

• politize (dated)

Antonyms

• depoliticize

Derived terms

• depoliticization
• depoliticize
• overpoliticize
• politicizable
• politicization
• politicizer
• repoliticize

Translations

to engage in or discuss politics

• Bulgarian: занима́вам се с поли́тика impf (zanimávam se s polítika)
• Finnish: politikoida (fi)
• Hungarian: politizál (hu)
• Macedonian: бистри политика (bistri politika)
• Russian: занима́ться поли́тикой impf (zanimátʹsja polítikoj)

to give something political characteristics

• Arabic: سَيَّسَ (sayyasa)
• Belarusian: палітызава́ць impf or pf (palityzavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: политизи́рам impf or pf (politizíram)
• Catalan: polititzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 政治化 (zh) (zhèngzhìhuà)

• Czech: politizovat
• Finnish: politisoida (fi)
• French: politiser (fr)
• Galician: politizar (gl)
• German: politisieren (de)
• Greek: πολιτικοποιώ (el) (politikopoió)
• Italian: politicizzare (it)
• Japanese: 政治化する (せいじかする, seijika suru)
• Korean: 정치화하다 (jeongchihwahada)
• Macedonian: политизи́ра impf or pf (politizíra)
• Occitan: politizar
• Polish: upolityczniać impf, upolitycznić pf
• Portuguese: politizar (pt)
• Romanian: politiza (ro)
• Russian: политизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (politizírovatʹ)
• Spanish: politizar (es)
• Swedish: politisera (sv)
• Ukrainian: політизува́ти (uk) impf or pf (polityzuváty)

to make someone politically active

• Catalan: polititzar (ca)
• Finnish: politisoida (fi)
• Galician: politizar (gl)
• German: politisieren (de)
• Greek: πολιτικοποιώ (el) (politikopoió)
• Italian: politicizzare (it)
• Portuguese: politizar (pt)
• Spanish: politizar (es)
• Swedish: politisera (sv)

See also

• politicalize