Analogized

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have drawn parallels between two different subjects to illustrate their resemblances
2. To have established a relationship between disparate concepts for clearer comprehension
3. To have made a comparison between two things to highlight similarities

Etymology: "Analogized" is the past tense of "analogize", so it describes the act of having drawn an analogy. The verb is built from "analogy" plus the suffix "-ize", and the noun itself traces back to Greek "analogia", meaning proportion or correspondence, formed from "ana" (according to) and "logos" (ratio or reasoning). The suffix does much of the work here. "-ize" comes through Late Latin "-izare" and Ancient Greek "-izein", which turned nouns and adjectives into verbs meaning to make or to treat in a certain way. English took it in through Middle French "-iser" and Middle English "-isen", so "analogize" is a verb that was assembled from an older noun in English, not inherited whole from any single ancient source.

Synonyms: compared, likened, related, correlated, associated