"colorize" meaning in All languages combined

See colorize on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈkʌ.lə.raɪz/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Scelultrix-colorize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: colorizes [present, singular, third-person], colorizing [participle, present], colorized [participle, past], colorized [past], colorise [alternative, uncommon], colourise [alternative], colourize [alternative, British, Canada, English, Oxford]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English colorize From color + -ize. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|color|-ize|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. 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  1. To add color to. Tags: US Synonyms (to add color to): color [colour, color], color in (english: colour in) Translations (to add color to): لَوَّنَ (lawwana) [masculine] (Arabic), värittää (Finnish), coloriser (French), colorier (French), koloryzować [imperfective] (Polish), färga (note: about clothes, hair etc) (Swedish), färglägga (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-colorize-en-verb-9cftGHx4 Disambiguation of 'to add color to': 98 2 Disambiguation of 'to add color to': 98 2
  2. (photography, cinematography) To convert black and white media to color by digital post production (as is often done in digital photography and in video special effects). Tags: US Translations (to convert a black and white media to color): värittää (Finnish), kolorieren (German), colorizzare (Italian), koloryzować [feminine] (Polish), färglägga (Swedish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: colorization (alt: colourisation, colourization), colorizer (alt: colouriser, colourizer), pseudocolorize

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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