anglicise

See also: anglicisé

English

Alternative forms

• Anglicise
• anglicize (North American and Oxford British spelling)
• Anglicize (North American and Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From Latin anglicus +‎ -ise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæŋɡlɪsaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

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.

Derived terms

• anglicisation, anglicization
• Anglicisation, Anglicization
• anglicised, anglicized
• Anglicised, Anglicized

Related terms

• anglicism, Anglicism

Translations

make English

• Arabic: تَأَنْجَلَ (taʔangala)
• Belarusian: англізава́ць impf or pf (anhlizavácʹ)
• Catalan: anglicitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 英國化 / 英国化 (yīngguóhuà), 英化 (yīnghuà), 盎格魯化 / 盎格鲁化 (ànggélǔhuà)

• Danish: anglisere
• Dutch: verengelsen (nl)
• Esperanto: angligi
• French: angliciser (fr)
• German: anglisieren (de)
• Greek: αγγλοποιώ (el) (anglopoió), εξαγγλίζω (el) (exanglízo)
• Hindi: अंग्रेज़ बनाना (aṅgrez banānā)
• Italian: inglesizzare (it)
• Japanese: 英国化する (えいこくかする, eikokuka suru)
• Korean: 영국화하다 (yeonggukhwahada)
• Malay: inggeriskan
• Norman: anglyiciser, (Saint Ouen) anglyicîther
• Polish: anglizować impf, zanglizować pf, angielszczyć impf
• Portuguese: anglicizar (pt)
• Russian: англизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (anglizírovatʹ)
• Ukrainian: англізува́ти (uk) impf or pf (anhlizuváty)
• Vietnamese: Anh hóa, Anh hoá

dub or translate into English

• Esperanto: angligi
• Greek: αγγλοποιώ (el) (anglopoió), εξαγγλίζω (el) (exanglízo)

become English

• Arabic: تَأَنْجَلَ (taʔangala)
• Belarusian: англізава́цца impf (anhlizavácca)
• Catalan: anglicitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 英國化 / 英国化 (yīngguóhuà)

• Dutch: verengelsen (nl)
• Esperanto: angliĝi
• French: s’angliciser (fr)
• German: sich anglisieren (de)
• Polish: anglizować się impf, zanglizować się pf, angielszczyć się impf
• Russian: англизи́роваться (ru) impf or pf (anglizírovatʹsja)
• Ukrainian: англізува́тися impf or pf (anhlizuvátysja)

French

Verb

anglicise

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

Anagrams

• galiciens