immortalise

See also: immortalisé

English

Alternative forms

• immortalize (US, Oxford British English)

Etymology

From immortal +‎ -ise. Perhaps modelled on Middle French immortaliser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɔː(ɹ).təˌlaɪz/

Verb

immortalise (third-person singular simple present immortalises, present participle immortalising, simple past and past participle immortalised) (non-Oxford British English, transitive)

1. To give unending life to, to make immortal.
   • 1790, William Cowper, “On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture out of Norfolk. The Gift of My Cousin Ann Bodham.”, in Poems […], London: […] [F]or J[oseph] Johnson, […] by T[homas] Bensley, […], published 1806, →OCLC, page 579:

     The meek intelligence of thoſe dear eyes / (Bleſt be the art that can immortalize, / The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim / To quench it) here ſhines on me ſtill the ſame.

2. To make eternally famous.

   His heroic deeds were immortalised in song and tale.

   • 2013 May 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The clocks at either end of the stadium had just ticked past 92 minutes when Branislav Ivanovic made the run that will immortalise him in Chelsea's history.

Derived terms

• immortalisation

Translations

to give unending life to

• Azerbaijani: ölümsüzləşdirmək
• Bulgarian: обезсмъртявам (bg) (obezsmǎrtjavam)
• Catalan: immortalitzar (ca)
• Finnish: tehdä kuolemattomaksi
• French: immortaliser (fr)
• Galician: inmortalizar (gl)
• Indonesian: mengekalkan (id), mengabadikan (id)
• Italian: immortalizzare
• Latin: aeterno
• Ligurian: immortalizzâ
• Portuguese: imortalizar (pt)
• Spanish: inmortalizar (es)
• Turkish: ölümsüzleştirmek (tr)

to make eternally famous

• Azerbaijani: əbədiləşdirmək
• Bulgarian: увековечавам (bg) (uvekovečavam)
• Catalan: immortalitzar (ca)
• Danish: udødeliggøre
• Dutch: vereeuwigen (nl)
• Finnish: ikuistaa (fi)
• French: immortaliser (fr)
• Galician: inmortalizar (gl)
• Polish: uwieczniać impf, uwiecznić (pl) pf, unieśmiertelniać impf, unieśmiertelnić pf, utrwalać (pl) impf, utrwalić (pl) pf, upamiętniać (pl) impf, upamiętnić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: imortalizar (pt)
• Spanish: inmortalizar (es)
• Turkish: ölümsüzleştirmek (tr)

Anagrams

• memorialist

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: immortalisent, immortalises

Verb

immortalise

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