Semitize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make Semitic as to language or culture. transitive

    "In a 1968 contribution he would even Semitize the Latin half of the Greco- Roman legacy by observing that the Phoenicians were "in Italy at the dawn of Roman history.""

Example

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"In a 1968 contribution he would even Semitize the Latin half of the Greco- Roman legacy by observing that the Phoenicians were "in Italy at the dawn of Roman history.""

Etymology

From Semite + -ize.

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