heroize

heroize

English

Alternative forms

  • heroise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

Etymology tree
English hero
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English heroize

    From hero + -ize.

    Verb

    heroize (third-person singular simple present heroizes, present participle heroizing, simple past and past participle heroized)

    1. (transitive) To make someone into a hero.
    2. (transitive) To treat someone as if they were a hero.

    Derived terms

    Translations

    This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.