adverbialize

English

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Etymology

From adverbial +‎ -ize.

Verb

adverbialize (third-person singular simple present adverbializes, present participle adverbializing, simple past and past participle adverbialized)

  1. (American spelling, transitive) To use as or change into an adverb.
    • 2010, Bjarke Frellesvig, A History of the Japanese Language, page 94:
      The basic function of the copula in Japanese is to predicate, adnominalize or adverbialize nouns.

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Portuguese

Verb

adverbialize

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