fictionalize
verbEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti Proto-Italic *θingō Proto-Italic *fingōder. Latin fingō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fictiōder. Old French ficcionbor. Middle English ficcioun English fiction Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English fictional 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 fictionalize From fictional + -ize.
- derived from -iserbor
- derived from -izōder
- derived from -ālisbor
- derived from -ālis Old French -elbor
- derived from -albor
- derived from *-ālis Latin -ālisbor✻
- derived from ficcionbor
Definitions
To retell (something) real (e.g., an event or series of events) as if it were fiction
To retell (something) real (e.g., an event or series of events) as if it were fiction; especially, to do so in a way that departs from reality in any extent from mild to extensive (from minor details to essential substance).
- a lightly fictionalized account of [X]
The neighborhood
- neighborfictionalization
- neighbordocudrama
- neighbordocufiction
- neighborfaction
- neighborroman à clef
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fictionalize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA