LATINISE

catholicize, catholicise, latinize, latinise

(verb) cause to adopt Catholicism

Romanize, Romanise, Latinize, Latinise

(verb) write in the Latin alphabet; “many shops in Japan now carry neon signs with Romanized names”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

Latinise (third-person singular simple present Latinises, present participle Latinising, simple past and past participle Latinised)

Non-Oxford British standard spelling of Latinize.

Anagrams

• Taliesin, alienist, anilites, litanies

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

31 March 2025

IMPROVISED

(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; “crossed the river on improvised bridges”; “the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear”; “the rock served as a makeshift hammer”


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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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