sivistää

== Finnish == === Etymology === siveä +‎ -istää (factitive verb); originally a dialectal word meaning “to clean (up), tidy (up), improve”, adopted in its modern meaning by Finnish linguist and author Reinhold von Becker in 1822. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsiʋistæːˣ/, [ˈs̠iʋis̠tæː(ʔ)] Rhymes: -iʋistæː Syllabification(key): si‧vis‧tää Hyphenation(key): si‧vis‧tää === Verb === sivistää (transitive) to civilize, sophisticate (to educate to a perceived higher level of education) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== sivistyä (intransitive) sivistys === References === === Further reading === “sivistää”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023