lusitanize

verb3

1. •
   To make Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.

   • Traders and governors attempted to lusitanize Goa and Macao for centuries.
2. •
   To become Portuguese or more Portuguese-like.

   • Their sandwiches are lusitanized by frying the meat with copious garlic and covering everything with thick slabs of red pepper paste.
3. •
   To translate or adapt into the Portuguese language.

   • The poet Camões used the lusitanized plural form cafres in the fifth canto of his 1572 poem Os Lusíadas.