gallicized

Adapted to Paris

Gallicized means made French in character, form, or style.

A gallicized word has been adapted to French spelling or pronunciation.

A gallicized name, custom, or institution has taken on French qualities: The gallicized spelling obscures the word's German origins.

The verb is gallicize; the process is gallicization.

francization

francophone

Native speaker of French

loanword · calque · frenchify · romanization · latinization · anglicization

adaptation

assimilation

Absorbing into a whole

integration · domestication · localization · translation · transcreation · indigenization · westernization · creolization · hybridization · glocalization

linguistics

pronunciation

Manner of speaking words

orthography · spelling · vocabulary · lexicon · grammar · syntax · morphology · idiom · bilingualism · fluency

Opposites
cultural/linguistic assimilation direction

gallicizedanglicized

Made to seem English

Americanized · Germanized · Italianized · Hispanicized · Latinized

preservation vs. transformation

gallicizedpreserved

Kept from deterioration

untranslated · unadapted · authentic · original · native

Family

gallic, Gaul, Gallic, Gaulish

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Rated G