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Meaning of lusitanize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
    transitive
  2. To become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.
    intransitive
  3. 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.

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