See thematicize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "thematic",
"3": "ize"
},
"expansion": "thematic + -ize",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From thematic + -ize.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "thematicizes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "thematicizing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "thematicized",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "thematicized",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "thematize",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "thematise",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "thematicise",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "thematicize (third-person singular simple present thematicizes, present participle thematicizing, simple past and past participle thematicized)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "24 38 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "27 36 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ize",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 38 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 37 37",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1979, Jovan Đorđević, Political Science in Yugoslavia: Selected Works, page 64:",
"text": "As opposed to this, politicology should thematicize practical life as a whole, namely, that part of life in which people joint not as a private political being in a private, separate political community, but as human beings in a community in which they reproduce a separate form of their historical existence.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Hans van Stralen, Choices and Conflict: Essays on Literature and Existentialism, →ISBN:",
"text": "In this way these autobiographies thematicize an important given within existentialism, namely the tension between the enforced identity of the other (in this case: the parents and educators) and the need the authentic individual feels to discover his essence by himself.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Gary Backhaus, John Murungi, Lived Topographies and Their Mediational Forces, →ISBN, page ix:",
"text": "The project behind this conceptualization is to thematicize the spatial component of all phenomena.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Jan Swafford, Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph : a Biography, →ISBN, page 983:",
"text": "That Beethoven would make the idea of an arpeggio into a motif is characteristic of his drive to thematicize every element of music.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make into or explore as a theme."
],
"id": "en-thematicize-en-verb-yDHiQYMT",
"links": [
[
"theme",
"theme"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Linguistics",
"orig": "en:Linguistics",
"parents": [
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "24 38 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "27 36 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ize",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 38 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 37 37",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1993, Ádám Makkai, Ecolinguistics: towards a new paradigm for the science of language?, →ISBN:",
"text": "If, on the other hand, /T/ stands under the N or NP marked as GOAL/TARGET/VICTIM, the transduction protocol will thematicize the DO noun, in our case Caesar, and the rest of the lexo-tactics, independently learned and remembered by the speakers, will adjust the verb as Aux + Tense + V + Past Participle and the original Agent/Subject of the race will show up as by + N in sentence final position.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Jane Garry, Carl R. Galvez Rubino, Facts about the World's Languages, →ISBN, page 124:",
"text": "However, there is a normal unmarked order, and other word orders thematicize or topicalize.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017 -, Mate Kapović, Anna Giacalone Ramat, Paolo Ramat, The Indo-European Languages, →ISBN:",
"text": "Celtic tended to thematicize athematic verbs and to generalize a single grade of ablaut, usually the zero grade of the plural:...",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To insert a thematic vowel."
],
"id": "en-thematicize-en-verb-g4TLpt4u",
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"thematic vowel",
"thematic vowel"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) To insert a thematic vowel."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Indo-European studies",
"orig": "en:Indo-European studies",
"parents": [
"Linguistics",
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Linguistics",
"orig": "en:Linguistics",
"parents": [
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "24 38 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "27 36 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ize",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 38 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 37 37",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "As late PIE evolved and split into dialects, many of the old root nouns and consonant-stems were thematicized.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To insert a thematic vowel.",
"To change from an athematic type into a thematic one"
],
"id": "en-thematicize-en-verb-q4yvP~Za",
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"thematic vowel",
"thematic vowel"
],
[
"Indo-European studies",
"Indo-European studies"
],
[
"athematic",
"athematic"
],
[
"thematic",
"thematic"
]
],
"qualifier": "usually passive voice or intransitive",
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) To insert a thematic vowel.",
"(Indo-European studies, usually passive voice or intransitive) To change from an athematic type into a thematic one"
],
"tags": [
"Indo-European-studies"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "thematicize"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -ize",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "thematic",
"3": "ize"
},
"expansion": "thematic + -ize",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From thematic + -ize.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "thematicizes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "thematicizing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "thematicized",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "thematicized",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "thematize",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "thematise",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "thematicise",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "thematicize (third-person singular simple present thematicizes, present participle thematicizing, simple past and past participle thematicized)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1979, Jovan Đorđević, Political Science in Yugoslavia: Selected Works, page 64:",
"text": "As opposed to this, politicology should thematicize practical life as a whole, namely, that part of life in which people joint not as a private political being in a private, separate political community, but as human beings in a community in which they reproduce a separate form of their historical existence.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Hans van Stralen, Choices and Conflict: Essays on Literature and Existentialism, →ISBN:",
"text": "In this way these autobiographies thematicize an important given within existentialism, namely the tension between the enforced identity of the other (in this case: the parents and educators) and the need the authentic individual feels to discover his essence by himself.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Gary Backhaus, John Murungi, Lived Topographies and Their Mediational Forces, →ISBN, page ix:",
"text": "The project behind this conceptualization is to thematicize the spatial component of all phenomena.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Jan Swafford, Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph : a Biography, →ISBN, page 983:",
"text": "That Beethoven would make the idea of an arpeggio into a motif is characteristic of his drive to thematicize every element of music.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make into or explore as a theme."
],
"links": [
[
"theme",
"theme"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Linguistics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1993, Ádám Makkai, Ecolinguistics: towards a new paradigm for the science of language?, →ISBN:",
"text": "If, on the other hand, /T/ stands under the N or NP marked as GOAL/TARGET/VICTIM, the transduction protocol will thematicize the DO noun, in our case Caesar, and the rest of the lexo-tactics, independently learned and remembered by the speakers, will adjust the verb as Aux + Tense + V + Past Participle and the original Agent/Subject of the race will show up as by + N in sentence final position.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Jane Garry, Carl R. Galvez Rubino, Facts about the World's Languages, →ISBN, page 124:",
"text": "However, there is a normal unmarked order, and other word orders thematicize or topicalize.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2017 -, Mate Kapović, Anna Giacalone Ramat, Paolo Ramat, The Indo-European Languages, →ISBN:",
"text": "Celtic tended to thematicize athematic verbs and to generalize a single grade of ablaut, usually the zero grade of the plural:...",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To insert a thematic vowel."
],
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"thematic vowel",
"thematic vowel"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) To insert a thematic vowel."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Indo-European studies",
"en:Linguistics"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "As late PIE evolved and split into dialects, many of the old root nouns and consonant-stems were thematicized.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To insert a thematic vowel.",
"To change from an athematic type into a thematic one"
],
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
],
[
"thematic vowel",
"thematic vowel"
],
[
"Indo-European studies",
"Indo-European studies"
],
[
"athematic",
"athematic"
],
[
"thematic",
"thematic"
]
],
"qualifier": "usually passive voice or intransitive",
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) To insert a thematic vowel.",
"(Indo-European studies, usually passive voice or intransitive) To change from an athematic type into a thematic one"
],
"tags": [
"Indo-European-studies"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "thematicize"
}
Download raw JSONL data for thematicize meaning in English (4.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-02 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (db8a5a5 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.