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lusitanize

verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

verb

Meaning 1

To make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • Traders and governors attempted to lusitanize Goa and Macao for centuries.

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Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

  • Their sandwiches are lusitanized by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.

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3

verb

Meaning 3

To translate or adapt into the Portuguese language.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • The poet Camões used the lusitanized plural form cafres in the fifth canto of his 1572 poem Os Lusíadas.

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History

Etymology

From Lusitanian + -ize, ultimately from Latin Lusitania (“pre-Roman and 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.