Meaning of lusitanize | Babel Free
Definitions
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To make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like. transitive
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To become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like. intransitive
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To translate or adapt into the Portuguese language. transitive
Examples
“Traders and governors attempted to lusitanize Goa and Macao for centuries.”
“Their sandwiches are lusitanized by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.”
“The poet Camões used the lusitanized plural form cafres in the fifth canto of his 1572 poem Os Lusíadas.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.