louisianiser
French, verb/lwi.zja.ni.ze/
louisianiser is spelled L-O-U-I-S-I-A-N-I-S-E-R (12 letters). Louisianiser is a French verb meaning “to make Louisianan, as to custom, culture, or style of Louisiana” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Donner un caractère louisianais à quelque chose ou à quelqu’un”.
What does louisianiser mean in English?
verb
- 1
Canadato make Louisianan, as to custom, culture, or style of Louisiana
- 2
Canadato assimilate into the dominant language of the country
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Donner un caractère louisianais à quelque chose ou à quelqu’un. 2. Devenir louisianais, prendre un caractère louisianais. 3. (Très souvent avec une nuance péjorative) Laisser sa culture, sa langue se marginaliser, se folkloriser, voire disparaître, sous l’influence de la culture, de la langue dominante ou majoritaire du pays (par allusion à ce qui s’est produit historiquement en Louisiane).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of louisianiser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- louisianisant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- louisianisé participle past
- louisianise first-person indicative present
- louisianises indicative present second-person
- louisianisons first-person indicative plural
- louisianisez indicative plural present
- louisianisent indicative plural present
- louisianisais first-person imperfect indicative
- louisianisait imperfect indicative singular
- louisianisions first-person imperfect indicative
- louisianisiez imperfect indicative plural
- louisianisaient imperfect indicative plural
- louisianisai first-person historic indicative
- louisianisas historic indicative past
- louisianisa historic indicative past
- louisianisâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce louisianiser?
- /lwi.zja.ni.ze/
- \lwi.zja.ni.ze\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.