lusitanizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Lusitanian +‎ -ize, ultimately from Latin Lusitania (“pre-Roman かつ Roman Portugal”), used archaistically in New Latin and English in reference to modern Portugal. Partially formed on the model of more common terms like gallicize and partially as a calque of Portuguese lusitanizar, from lusitano (“Lusitanian, Portuguese”) + -izar.

動詞

lusitanize (三人称単数 現在形 lusitanizes, 現在分詞 lusitanizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

同意語

• Portuguesify

派生語

• lusitanization