单词 | romancize |
释义 | romancizev. rare. transitive. To impart a Romance or Latin character to; esp. to render (a word or name) in a Romance language.In quot. 1883 apparently: to expose to the influence of scholarship in Latin. ΚΠ 1883 H. M. Kennedy tr. B. ten Brink Early Eng. Lit. ii. ii. 127 When Lanfranc sat upon the archiepiscopal seat of Canterbury and began energetically to romancise [Ger. romanisiren] the English church and clergy. 1991 D. C. Gladney Muslim Chinese p. xvi Arabic and Persian terms are romancized according to the Encyclopedia of Islam. Derivatives roˈmancized adj. ΚΠ 1891 C. P. MacKie With Admiral of Open Sea xx. 248 Various conjectures have been hazarded as to what English name this Romancized substitute [sc. ‘Tallarte de Lajes’] represents. 1977 Arabica 24 284 Izārī = izare, a Romancised form of Ar[abic] izār, ‘cloak’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1883 |
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