lusitanize

Meaning

1. verb To make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.

   Traders and governors attempted to lusitanize Goa and Macao for centuries.

2. verb To become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.

   Their sandwiches are lusitanized by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.

3. verb To translate or adapt into the Portuguese language.

   The poet Camões used the lusitanized plural form cafres in the fifth canto of his 1572 poem Os Lusíadas.