Germanizev.

Brit.

/ˈdʒəːmənʌɪz/, U.S.

/ˈdʒərməˌnaɪz/

Forms: 1600s– Germanise, 1600s– Germanize. Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: German adj., -ize suffix.

Etymology: < German adj. + -ize suffix. Compare French germaniser to use German words (1587 in Middle French; later also ‘to make German’ (1755)). Compare German †deutschen (Middle High German diutschen), verdeutschen (16th cent. in Luther or earlier, now rare), eindeutschen (18th cent.), all in sense ‘to say in German, translate into German’, and also germanisieren to give German linguistic form, to make (culturally) German or Germanic (1771 or earlier as germanisiren).

1. transitive. To translate into German; to give a German linguistic form to.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > translate [verb (transitive)] > into particular language

to make EnglishOE

Englisha1450

Latin1563

Latinize1589

Germanize1605

Scottish1623

Englify1688

anglicize1711

romance1796

Saxonize1804

Scotticize1809

Syriacize1863

French1868

Sanskritize1881

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 432 The Dutch, hath him who Germaniz'd [Fr. qui refait alemand] the storie Of Sleidan.

1782 New Rev. Oct. 349 In his next edition, the author will do well to germanize what Mr. Walpole has said of this writer.

1793 C. Böttiger Let. in C. N. Innes Mem. Andrew Dalzel (1861) 107 I have got a vast liking..to Germanize them myself.

1814 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 73 354 Several of whose odes have been as happily Germanized by Ramler as his epistles have been by Wieland.

1893 K. A. Lentzner Chamisso 28 He joined Baron Gaudy in..Germanising a selection of ninety-eight songs of Béranger.

1899 Assembly Herald July 51/1 Christian Endeavor has been Germanized into Entschiedenes Christenthum, ‘Decided Christianity’.

1929 H. Keyserling Creative Understanding ii. 77 The efforts of Claudel and other enemies of Latinity to Germanize the language.

1980 Word 1979 30 141 It had to repolonize all place-names and road signs which had been germanized during the occupation.

2001 G. A. Featherston Matthew Arnold's Church of Brou 79 A.'s Marguerite was a Princess of the House of Austria, and A. might have so styled her as in III 12. Possibly what deterred him was the feeling that he might have, for this one verse only, to Germanise her name.

2. transitive. To make German in manner, appearance, customs, habits, or taste; to give a German character or quality to; reflexive = sense 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [verb (transitive)]

Germanize1608

Germanify1863

1608 T. Heywood Rape of Lucrece sig. E3^v The first health shal be impos'd on you Ualerius, and if euer you haue bin germanis'd let it be after the Dutch fashion.

1755 B. Franklin Observ. conc. Increase Mankind 14 in W. Clarke Observ. Late & Present Conduct French Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them.

1790 By-stander 350 Thus did the only man who has ever been suffered to give musical laws in this kingdom [sc. Handel], Germanize us out of the little taste which, previous to his misty appearance, had begun to glimmer on us.

1812 Visct. Folkestone Speech House of Commons 10 Dec. He had seen our..officers adopting German dresses, and Germanizing themselves as much as possible.

1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iii. xiv. 329 The process by which Normandy was Germanized.

1891 Athenæum 22 Aug. 250/2 She [sc. Japan] has endeavoured in turn to anglicize, americanize, gallicize, and germanize herself.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 2/3 No Imperial fortress-castle is strong enough to Germanise the vast plains where peer and peasant alike are still passionately Polish.

1942 Life 29 June 31/3 He [sc. Tomoyuki Yamashita] helped Germanize the Japanese air force, which has in turn taught the Germans many a trick.

1987 S. Bellow More die of Heartbreak 25 The more Germany rebuffed them [sc. Jews], the more eager they were to Germanize themselves.

2002 Daily Tel. 27 Nov. 24/2 Lord Tebbit..told me that his greatest Britons were Alfred, who saved us from being Scandinavians, and Churchill, who saved us from being Germanised.

3. intransitive. To adopt German manners, customs, or linguistic forms; to become German in style, tastes, habits, sympathies, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [verb (intransitive)]

Germanize1665

1665 J. Locke Let. in H. R. F. Bourne Life J. Locke (1876) I. iii. 112 Our landlord, who is wont sometimes to germanize.

1690 tr. G. Buchanan Hist. Scotl. ii. 67 Edinodunum, which Word the Ancient Scots do yet retain, but they who Germanize, had rather call it Edinburgh.

1764 Question Independency Mil. Officers 49 Even that gentlemen, with all his popularity, found himself obliged to Germanize.

1801 True Briton in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1802) V. 123 For, though our troops might fraternize, They'd poltrons be to Germanize.

1821 P. B. Shelley Let. 18 Feb. (1964) II. 265 You are indeed Germanizing very fast.

1888 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. 2nd Ser. ix. 325 Amiel..may have Germanised until he has become capable of the verb dépersonnaliser and the noun réimplication; but after all, his heart is in the right place.

2004 Daily Star (Nexis) 15 Feb. 23 Inside, you'll be met by a thigh-slapping German and his missus Helga. As they say: ‘Don't compromise, Germanize!’

Derivatives

ˌGermaniˈzation n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [noun] > action of making

Germanization1764

Germanizing1801

Teutonizing1854

1764 Crit. Rev. May 355 The compilers strain every nerve to justify the germanization of their patron.

1850 Fraser's Mag. 42 689 Should the Governments of Prussia and Austria persist in their present system of Germanization.

1889 Times 14 Jan. 5/6 The Bill would tend to the Germanization of Hungary.

1939 T. S. Eliot Idea of Christian Society 84 Moral re-armament in my opinion may easily lead to a progressive Germanisation of our society.

2005 V. Rothwell War Aims in Second World War ii. 36 In the early spring of 1942 Himmler insisted on..germanisation, beginning in Lublin province in south-east Poland.

ˈGermanized adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [adjective] > made

Germanized1730

Teutonized1866

1730 W. Shippen in Hist. & Proc. House of Commons (1742) VII. 56 The Establishment of an Army in Great Britain, which I hope will never be so far Germanized, as tamely to submit to a Military Government.

1731 Craftsman No. 241. 254 Those Persons, who have branded the Majority of the Nation, for several Years past, with the Appellation of Germanized Patriots.

1760 S. Foote Minor i. 31 Who knows whether this Germaniz'd genius has parts to comprehend..thy merit.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 100 A Latin word with a Germanized ending.

1831 S. Smith in Examiner 10 Apr. 230/2 We should..have been..about as free as Denmark, Sweden, or the Germanized States of Italy.

1850 H. Rogers Ess. II. iv. 213 The Germanised style..consists..in an absurd imitation of German idiom and construction.

1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 720 Incidents..illustrative of the people's concealing French hearts under their Germanized exteriors.

1920 Musical Times 61 802/1 But one need not be hopelessly Germanised to see that the ideals of the two composers [sc. Wagner and Debussy] do not balance.

1996 L. Al-Hafidh et al. Europe: Rough Guide (ed. 3) ii. iv. 181 Plzeňský Prazdroj, or Pilsner Urquell (its Germanized export name).

ˈGermanizer n.

ΚΠ

1834 Metrop. Mag. Feb. 73/1 He is a marvellous coiner and germanizer of words, and his language is as untranslateable as a pun.

1860 Lit. Churchman 6 3/1 The maudlin and unavowed scepticism of one or other of these classes of Germanizers.

1900 W. Tuckwell Reminisc. Oxf. ix. 152 An inferior candidate being preferred before him, first because Max [Müller] was a German, and therefore a ‘Germaniser’, secondly [etc.].

1959 World Politics 11 298 [Friedrich] Naumann, an ardent Germanizer of foreign words, simply offered Volksstaat as a translation of ‘republic’.

2007 N. M. Wingfield in L. Cole & D. L. Unowsky Limits of Loyalty iii. 80 By the late nineteenth century Czechs would decry the emperor as a Germanizer and centralizer while Germans praised him for the same reasons.

ˈGermanizing n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [noun] > action of making

Germanization1764

Germanizing1801

Teutonizing1854

1801 J. A. Fahrenkrüger Bailey's Dict. Eng.-German & German-Eng. 582/1 Verdeutschung,..germanising, translating into german.

1804 European Mag. & London Rev. Nov. 334/2 A Botanic Garden, the productions of which are, by the wits of the Row, who are fond of Germanizing, termed the Diet of Worms.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xvi. 261 The Germanising of Gaul would lead..to fresh invasions of Italy.

1881 Scribner's Monthly 22 97/1 The vague..notion that his [sc. Thomas Carlyle's] style consists in a mere Germanising of English may be dismissed at once.

1922 E. Paul & C. Paul tr. W. Oechsli Hist. Switzerland vi. xxxvi. 410 To the old opponents of a strong Confederation..there were now added the Romance Swiss of all parties, who feared that such a thorough-going centralisation..would lead to the Germanising of Switzerland.

1993 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 8 Dec. 8 The Germanising of Ischia is evident on the ferry from Naples, which plays tapes of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana during the hour-long crossing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	germanize
释义	Germanizev. Brit. /ˈdʒəːmənʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈdʒərməˌnaɪz/ Forms: 1600s– Germanise, 1600s– Germanize. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: German adj., -ize suffix. Etymology: < German adj. + -ize suffix. Compare French germaniser to use German words (1587 in Middle French; later also ‘to make German’ (1755)). Compare German †deutschen (Middle High German diutschen), verdeutschen (16th cent. in Luther or earlier, now rare), eindeutschen (18th cent.), all in sense ‘to say in German, translate into German’, and also germanisieren to give German linguistic form, to make (culturally) German or Germanic (1771 or earlier as germanisiren). 1. transitive. To translate into German; to give a German linguistic form to. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > translate [verb (transitive)] > into particular language to make EnglishOE Englisha1450 Latin1563 Latinize1589 Germanize1605 Scottish1623 Englify1688 anglicize1711 romance1796 Saxonize1804 Scotticize1809 Syriacize1863 French1868 Sanskritize1881 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 432 The Dutch, hath him who Germaniz'd [Fr. qui refait alemand] the storie Of Sleidan. 1782 New Rev. Oct. 349 In his next edition, the author will do well to germanize what Mr. Walpole has said of this writer. 1793 C. Böttiger Let. in C. N. Innes Mem. Andrew Dalzel (1861) 107 I have got a vast liking..to Germanize them myself. 1814 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 73 354 Several of whose odes have been as happily Germanized by Ramler as his epistles have been by Wieland. 1893 K. A. Lentzner Chamisso 28 He joined Baron Gaudy in..Germanising a selection of ninety-eight songs of Béranger. 1899 Assembly Herald July 51/1 Christian Endeavor has been Germanized into Entschiedenes Christenthum, ‘Decided Christianity’. 1929 H. Keyserling Creative Understanding ii. 77 The efforts of Claudel and other enemies of Latinity to Germanize the language. 1980 Word 1979 30 141 It had to repolonize all place-names and road signs which had been germanized during the occupation. 2001 G. A. Featherston Matthew Arnold's Church of Brou 79 A.'s Marguerite was a Princess of the House of Austria, and A. might have so styled her as in III 12. Possibly what deterred him was the feeling that he might have, for this one verse only, to Germanise her name. 2. transitive. To make German in manner, appearance, customs, habits, or taste; to give a German character or quality to; reflexive = sense 3. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [verb (transitive)] Germanize1608 Germanify1863 1608 T. Heywood Rape of Lucrece sig. E3^v The first health shal be impos'd on you Ualerius, and if euer you haue bin germanis'd let it be after the Dutch fashion. 1755 B. Franklin Observ. conc. Increase Mankind 14 in W. Clarke Observ. Late & Present Conduct French Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them. 1790 By-stander 350 Thus did the only man who has ever been suffered to give musical laws in this kingdom [sc. Handel], Germanize us out of the little taste which, previous to his misty appearance, had begun to glimmer on us. 1812 Visct. Folkestone Speech House of Commons 10 Dec. He had seen our..officers adopting German dresses, and Germanizing themselves as much as possible. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iii. xiv. 329 The process by which Normandy was Germanized. 1891 Athenæum 22 Aug. 250/2 She [sc. Japan] has endeavoured in turn to anglicize, americanize, gallicize, and germanize herself. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 2/3 No Imperial fortress-castle is strong enough to Germanise the vast plains where peer and peasant alike are still passionately Polish. 1942 Life 29 June 31/3 He [sc. Tomoyuki Yamashita] helped Germanize the Japanese air force, which has in turn taught the Germans many a trick. 1987 S. Bellow More die of Heartbreak 25 The more Germany rebuffed them [sc. Jews], the more eager they were to Germanize themselves. 2002 Daily Tel. 27 Nov. 24/2 Lord Tebbit..told me that his greatest Britons were Alfred, who saved us from being Scandinavians, and Churchill, who saved us from being Germanised. 3. intransitive. To adopt German manners, customs, or linguistic forms; to become German in style, tastes, habits, sympathies, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [verb (intransitive)] Germanize1665 1665 J. Locke Let. in H. R. F. Bourne Life J. Locke (1876) I. iii. 112 Our landlord, who is wont sometimes to germanize. 1690 tr. G. Buchanan Hist. Scotl. ii. 67 Edinodunum, which Word the Ancient Scots do yet retain, but they who Germanize, had rather call it Edinburgh. 1764 Question Independency Mil. Officers 49 Even that gentlemen, with all his popularity, found himself obliged to Germanize. 1801 True Briton in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1802) V. 123 For, though our troops might fraternize, They'd poltrons be to Germanize. 1821 P. B. Shelley Let. 18 Feb. (1964) II. 265 You are indeed Germanizing very fast. 1888 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. 2nd Ser. ix. 325 Amiel..may have Germanised until he has become capable of the verb dépersonnaliser and the noun réimplication; but after all, his heart is in the right place. 2004 Daily Star (Nexis) 15 Feb. 23 Inside, you'll be met by a thigh-slapping German and his missus Helga. As they say: ‘Don't compromise, Germanize!’ Derivatives ˌGermaniˈzation n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [noun] > action of making Germanization1764 Germanizing1801 Teutonizing1854 1764 Crit. Rev. May 355 The compilers strain every nerve to justify the germanization of their patron. 1850 Fraser's Mag. 42 689 Should the Governments of Prussia and Austria persist in their present system of Germanization. 1889 Times 14 Jan. 5/6 The Bill would tend to the Germanization of Hungary. 1939 T. S. Eliot Idea of Christian Society 84 Moral re-armament in my opinion may easily lead to a progressive Germanisation of our society. 2005 V. Rothwell War Aims in Second World War ii. 36 In the early spring of 1942 Himmler insisted on..germanisation, beginning in Lublin province in south-east Poland. ˈGermanized adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [adjective] > made Germanized1730 Teutonized1866 1730 W. Shippen in Hist. & Proc. House of Commons (1742) VII. 56 The Establishment of an Army in Great Britain, which I hope will never be so far Germanized, as tamely to submit to a Military Government. 1731 Craftsman No. 241. 254 Those Persons, who have branded the Majority of the Nation, for several Years past, with the Appellation of Germanized Patriots. 1760 S. Foote Minor i. 31 Who knows whether this Germaniz'd genius has parts to comprehend..thy merit. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 100 A Latin word with a Germanized ending. 1831 S. Smith in Examiner 10 Apr. 230/2 We should..have been..about as free as Denmark, Sweden, or the Germanized States of Italy. 1850 H. Rogers Ess. II. iv. 213 The Germanised style..consists..in an absurd imitation of German idiom and construction. 1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 720 Incidents..illustrative of the people's concealing French hearts under their Germanized exteriors. 1920 Musical Times 61 802/1 But one need not be hopelessly Germanised to see that the ideals of the two composers [sc. Wagner and Debussy] do not balance. 1996 L. Al-Hafidh et al. Europe: Rough Guide (ed. 3) ii. iv. 181 Plzeňský Prazdroj, or Pilsner Urquell (its Germanized export name). ˈGermanizer n. ΚΠ 1834 Metrop. Mag. Feb. 73/1 He is a marvellous coiner and germanizer of words, and his language is as untranslateable as a pun. 1860 Lit. Churchman 6 3/1 The maudlin and unavowed scepticism of one or other of these classes of Germanizers. 1900 W. Tuckwell Reminisc. Oxf. ix. 152 An inferior candidate being preferred before him, first because Max [Müller] was a German, and therefore a ‘Germaniser’, secondly [etc.]. 1959 World Politics 11 298 [Friedrich] Naumann, an ardent Germanizer of foreign words, simply offered Volksstaat as a translation of ‘republic’. 2007 N. M. Wingfield in L. Cole & D. L. Unowsky Limits of Loyalty iii. 80 By the late nineteenth century Czechs would decry the emperor as a Germanizer and centralizer while Germans praised him for the same reasons. ˈGermanizing n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Germany > [noun] > action of making Germanization1764 Germanizing1801 Teutonizing1854 1801 J. A. Fahrenkrüger Bailey's Dict. Eng.-German & German-Eng. 582/1 Verdeutschung,..germanising, translating into german. 1804 European Mag. & London Rev. Nov. 334/2 A Botanic Garden, the productions of which are, by the wits of the Row, who are fond of Germanizing, termed the Diet of Worms. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xvi. 261 The Germanising of Gaul would lead..to fresh invasions of Italy. 1881 Scribner's Monthly 22 97/1 The vague..notion that his [sc. Thomas Carlyle's] style consists in a mere Germanising of English may be dismissed at once. 1922 E. Paul & C. Paul tr. W. Oechsli Hist. Switzerland vi. xxxvi. 410 To the old opponents of a strong Confederation..there were now added the Romance Swiss of all parties, who feared that such a thorough-going centralisation..would lead to the Germanising of Switzerland. 1993 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 8 Dec. 8 The Germanising of Ischia is evident on the ferry from Naples, which plays tapes of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana during the hour-long crossing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1605
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