re-Latinize
See also: relatinize
English
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Verb
re-Latinize (third-person singular simple present re-Latinizes, present participle re-Latinizing, simple past and past participle re-Latinized)
- (transitive) To Latinize again.
- 1999, Brian P. Copenhaver, “Aristotelianisms”, in Richard H. Popkin, editor, The Columbia History of Western Philosophy, New York, NY: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 288:
- It was Leonardo Bruni (ca. 1369–1444) who had begun the transplantation of the medieval Aristotelian corpus into a Latin conforming to the new humanist standards and hence appealing to a readership educated by humanists. […] Meanwhile, as Bruni's reputation grew, other humanists had begun to re-Latinize Aristotle.
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