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ize izé íze izë English Pronunciation en /-aɪz/ GA,RP en /-ɑjz/ SSB en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl--ize.wav Southern England According to the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, "it is unstressed (though strong) in Received Pronunciation and General American, but sometimes stressed in other varieties". Etymology 1 en :inh enm:-isen<ety:bor<frm:-iser<ety:der<la-lat:-izō>>>> 1 From en enm -isen, from en frm -iser, from en la-lat -izō -izāre, from en grc -ίζω, from en ine-pro *-idyé- verbal suffix. Cognate with ang -ettan verbal suffix. Alternative forms en -ise non-Oxford British spelling Suffix Used to form verbs from nouns or adjectives, especially similative verbs to make what is denoted by the noun/adjective en pixel pixelize to do what is denoted by the noun/adjective en cannibal cannibalize Usage notes Synonyms to become something or adopt other's customs, to assimilate en -ify -maxx<qq:Internet slang> Derived terms en en -izer, en -ization Translations suffix used to form verbs Afrikaans: af -iseer Albanian: sq -izoj Arabic: ar فَعَّلَ Asturian: ast -izar Basque: eu -izatu Belarusian: be -ізава́ць, be -ізі́раваць Bulgarian: bg -изи́рам Catalan: ca -itzar Chinese: Cantonese: yue -化 faa3 Hakka: hak -化 fa Hokkien: nan-hbl -化 hoà Mandarin: cmn 化 -化 huà Czech: cs -izovat Danish: da -ere, da -isere Dutch: nl -iseren Esperanto: eo -igi Estonian: et -iseerima Finnish: fi -oida, fi -öidä, fi -isoida French: fr -iser Galician: gl -izar German: de -ieren, de -isieren Greek: el -ποιώ, el -ίζω Ancient Greek: grc -ποιέω, grc -ίζω Hungarian: hu -izál, hu -alizál see Usage notes at -izál Ido: io -izar Interlingua: ia -isar Italian: it -izzare Japanese: ja 化 -化する -かする, -ka-suru (ja 化 -か, -ka + ja する -suru) Korean: ko -화(化)-하다 Latin: la -izō Grecism, la -ficō, la -faciō, la -iō3 Latvian: lv -izēt Lithuanian: lt -izuoti Lombard: lmo -izà Macedonian: mk -изи́ра Maltese: mt -izza Norwegian: no -ere, no -isere Occitan: oc -izar Persian: fa ـیدن -idan Polish: pl -izować impf, pl -yzować impf Portuguese: pt -izar Romanian: ro -iza Cyrillic: ro -иза Russian: ru -изова́ть, ru -изи́ровать Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh -изи́рати Latin: sh -izírati Slovak: sk -izovať Slovene: sl -izirati Spanish: es -izar Swedish: sv -era, sv -isera Thai: th ทำให้เป็น tām-hâi-bpēn, th อภิวัตน์ -อภิวัตน์ -à-pí-wát Turkish: tr -ize, tr -le, tr -la Ukrainian: uk -ізува́ти Vietnamese: vi hoá ... hoá (vi 化 -化) Yiddish: yi ־יזירן Etymology 2 See en -ise noun-forming suffix. Suffix s en -ise suffix used to form nouns. en palliard palliardize en productive suffixes