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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

ritualizar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ʁi.twa.liˈzaɾ/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ritualize/ˈrɪtʃ.u.ə.laɪz/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Eles gostam de ritualizar as celebrações de aniversário todos os anos."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To make something into a ritual; to make a custom, procedure, or behavior ceremonial and structured.

    "Over time, the family began to ritualize their Sunday dinners with a specific sequence of toasts."
  2. 2

    To develop fixed, repetitive behavioral patterns, often in a psychological or ethological context.

    "Certain animals ritualize combat displays to resolve territorial disputes without causing fatal injury."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the noun 'ritual', stemming from Latin 'ritualis' relating to rites, via French in the 17th century. The suffix '-ize' was added in the 19th century to form a verb denoting the act of making something into a ritual or prescribing customary observances.

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