regularize

English

Alternative forms

• regularise (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti

Proto-Italic *regō

Latin regō

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-om

Proto-Indo-European *-trom

Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, *-dʰlom

Latin -ula

Latin rēgula

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin -āris

Latin rēgulārisder.

Anglo-Norman regulerder.

Middle English reguler

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Latin rēgulārisbor.

English regular

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

English regularize

From regular + -ize.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛɡjəlɚaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

regularize (third-person singular simple present regularizes, present participle regularizing, simple past and past participle regularized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. To make regular.

   Antonym: irregularize

   Regularizing spelling was an important step in the advancement of literary society.

Derived terms

• deregularize
• nonregularized
• overregularize
• regularizable
• regularizer
• unregularized

Translations

to make regular

• Bulgarian: регулирам (bg) (reguliram), нормализирам (bg) (normaliziram)
• Finnish: säännöllistää
• French: régulariser (fr)
• Galician: regularizar
• Portuguese: regularizar

Further reading

• “regularize”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Portuguese

Verb

regularize

1. inflection of regularizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative