| 释义 |
paronymize, v.|pəˈrɒnɪmaɪz|
[f. prec. + -ize.]
trans. To convert into a paronym; to adapt (a foreign word) by giving it a native form. So paronymiˈzation.
1885B. G. Wilder in Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sc. XXXIII. 529 note, I have suggested that, in English works, so far as possible, the names be given an English aspect by paronymisation. 1889Nation (N.Y.) 18 July 58/3 The Latin words are commonly paronymized rather than translated into inelegant or misleading heteronyms; e.g. pedunculus is Anglicised as peduncle, not footlet. |