metamorphosize

metamorphosize

English

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Etymology

Etymology tree
English metamorphose
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 metamorphosize

    From metamorphose + -ize.

    Verb

    metamorphosize (third-person singular simple present metamorphosizes, present participle metamorphosizing, simple past and past participle metamorphosized)

    1. (nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
      • 1995, Joyce Rupp, Little Pieces of Light...: Darkness and Personal Growth, page 36:
        "Sitting in the darkness and waiting doesn't come naturally for us even though we "sat" for nine months in our mother's womb, a development which is as mysterious and marvelous as that of a caterpillar metamorphosizing into a butterfly."

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