[f. next + -ATION.] The action of latinizing or making Latin in form; the rendering or turning into Latin.
1830. De Quincey, in Blackw. Mag., XXVIII. 646. The Latinization of Grecian proper names.
1837. T. Hook, Jack Brag, xiv. Andrew Borde, or according to his own absurd latinisation of his name, Andreas Perforatus.
1861. J. G. Sheppard, Fall Rome, viii. 409. From that invasion we may date the era of its complete Latinization.
1861. M. Arnold, Pop. Educ. France, 172. By the mixture of our race, by the Latinisation of our language.
1898. Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc., XXVIII. 49. A Latinization of the speculative and didactic poem of Empedocles.
