Associations to the word «Latinize»

Wiktionary

LATINIZE, verb. (transitive) To translate something into the Latin language; or make a word similar in appearance to a Latin word.
LATINIZE, verb. (transitive) To transliterate something into the characters of the Latin script; to Romanize
LATINIZE, verb. (transitive) To make like the Roman Catholic Church or diffuse its ideas in.
LATINIZE, verb. (nonstandard) Alternative letter-case form of Latinize

Dictionary definition

LATINIZE, verb. Write in the Latin alphabet; "many shops in Japan now carry neon signs with Romanized names".
LATINIZE, verb. Translate into Latin.
LATINIZE, verb. Cause to adopt Catholicism.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin