See topicalize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"expansion": "Etymology tree\nEnglish topic\nProto-Indo-European *h₂el-\nProto-Indo-European *-is\nProto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?\nProto-Italic *-ālis\nLatin -ālislbor.\nOld French -albor.\n▲\nLatin -ālis\nOld French -elbor.\n▲\nLatin -ālisbor.\nMiddle English -al\nEnglish -al\nEnglish topical\nProto-Indo-European *-id-\nProto-Indo-European *-yéti\nProto-Indo-European *-idyéti\nProto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō\nAncient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.\nLate Latin -izōder.\nMiddle French -iserbor.\nMiddle English -isen\nEnglish -ize\nEnglish topicalize\nFrom topical + -ize.",
"name": "ety"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nEnglish topic\nProto-Indo-European *h₂el-\nProto-Indo-European *-is\nProto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?\nProto-Italic *-ālis\nLatin -ālislbor.\nOld French -albor.\n▲\nLatin -ālis\nOld French -elbor.\n▲\nLatin -ālisbor.\nMiddle English -al\nEnglish -al\nEnglish topical\nProto-Indo-European *-id-\nProto-Indo-European *-yéti\nProto-Indo-European *-idyéti\nProto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō\nAncient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.\nLate Latin -izōder.\nMiddle French -iserbor.\nMiddle English -isen\nEnglish -ize\nEnglish topicalize\nFrom topical + -ize.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "topicalizes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "topicalizing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "topicalized",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "topicalized",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "topicalise",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "topicalize (third-person singular simple present topicalizes, present participle topicalizing, simple past and past participle topicalized)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Grammar"
],
"glosses": [
"To place the topic of a sentence at the beginning."
],
"links": [
[
"grammar",
"grammar"
],
[
"topic",
"topic"
],
[
"sentence",
"sentence"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(grammar) To place the topic of a sentence at the beginning."
],
"topics": [
"grammar",
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Sociology"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
153,
164
]
],
"ref": "2013, Teun A. van Dijk, News Analysis, page 203:",
"text": "[…] during the whole media debate the alternative point of view and the perspective and rights of the minority groups themselves were hardly, if at all, topicalized.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To treat (a subject) as a topic."
],
"links": [
[
"sociology",
"sociology"
],
[
"topic",
"topic"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(sociology) To treat (a subject) as a topic."
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"sciences",
"social-science",
"sociology"
]
}
],
"word": "topicalize"
}
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