This week’s theme
Places that became verbs

This week’s words
birminghamize
barbados
solecize
locarnize
debunk

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(lo-KAHR-nyz)

MEANING:

verb tr., intr.: To bring about peace or settle a disagreement by negotiation.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Locarno, Switzerland, where in Oct 1925, Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy met to settle post-WWI disputes and concluded the Locarno Treaties. Earliest documented use: 1925.

USAGE:

“Pilsudski ... manifested a repugnance to have the military convention locarnized.”
Piotr Stefan Wandycz; The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances, 1926-1936; Princeton University Press; 1988.

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