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anglicise

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See also: anglicisé

English

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Etymology

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From Latin anglicus-ise.

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Verb

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anglicise (third-person singular simple present anglicises, present participle anglicising, simple past and past participle anglicised) (non-Oxford British spelling)

  1. (transitive) To make English, as to customs, culture, pronunciation, spelling, or style.
    Hypernyms: (of words) naturalize, paronymize
    • 1970, W. H. Auden, A Certain World, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 267:
      Someone who is translating into English a German novel, the hero of which is named Heinrich, will leave the name as it is; he will not Anglicize it into Henry.
    • 2022 December 8, Caitlin Cassidy, “What does the Lensa AI app do with my self portraits and why has it gone viral?”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Other users of non-anglo descent have also alleged Lensa whitened their skin and anglicised their features, a common complaint of image-editing software on platforms like TikTok.
  2. (transitive) To dub or translate into English.
  3. (intransitive) To become English.

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Verb

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anglicise

  1. inflection of angliciser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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