archaize

English

Alternative forms

• archaise (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀρχαΐζω (arkhaḯzō).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑː(ɹ).keɪˌaɪz/

Verb

archaize (third-person singular simple present archaizes, present participle archaizing, simple past and past participle archaized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. (transitive) To give an archaic quality or character to; make archaic, to suggest the past.

   The statue had an archaized quality to it.

   • 2018, Jan Assmann, The Invention of Religion:

     An Egyptologist's mind immediately turns to the ancient Egyptian counterpart to such an imagined protosactuary: a reed hut that all late Egyptian temples, in their archaizing longing to return to the origins, sought to emulate in stone through the typically Egyptian temple features of inward-sloping walls, torus and corvetto cornice.

2. (intransitive) To speak, write, etc. in an archaic manner.

Synonyms

• archaicize

Derived terms

• archaization
• archaizer
• archaizingly

Translations

To give an archaic quality or character to

• Catalan: arcaïtzar (ca)
• French: archaïser (fr)
• German: archaisieren (de), (intransitive also) altertümeln (de)
• Greek: αρχαΐζω (el) (archaḯzo)
• Norwegian: arkaisere (no)
• Polish: archaizować (pl) impf, zarchaizować pf
• Portuguese: arcaizar
• Romanian: arhaiza (ro)
• Swedish: arkaisera (sv)

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