dictionarize

English

Alternative forms

• dictionarise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From dictionary +‎ -ize.

Verb

dictionarize (third-person singular simple present dictionarizes, present participle dictionarizing, simple past and past participle dictionarized)

1. (transitive) To add (something) to a dictionary.

   The word dictionarize has been dictionarized on Wiktionary.

   • 2022, Andreína Adelstein, Victoria de los Ángeles Boschiroli, “Spanish neologisms during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changing criteria for their inclusion and representation in dictionaries”, in Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus, Ilan Kernerman, editors, Lexicography of Coronavirus-Related Neologisms (Lexicographica; 163), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 94:

     Our starting point will be data obtained by the Antenas Neológicas Network! (https://www.upf.edu/web/antenas), whose representation in three different lexicographic tools will be analyzed with the purpose of identifying problems in the methodology used to dictionarize — that is, how and what words were selected to be included in dictionaries and how they were represented in their entries — neologisms during the COVID-19 pandemic (sources and corpora of analysis, selection criteria, types of definition, among other aspects).

Derived terms

• dictionarizable

 

Related terms

• dictionarization
• dictionarized