Novelizes

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Transforms an existing story, such as a film or play, into a novel format
2. Converts a narrative from another medium into a book-length fictional work
3. Adapts a story originally presented in a different form into a written novel

Etymology: "Novelize" is a plain formation: the noun "novel" plus the verbal suffix "-ize," which turns a noun into a verb meaning to treat or make something in a particular way. "Novel" itself came into English from Italian "novella," a short story, and that Italian word traces back to Latin "novus," meaning "new." The Latin root is the same one behind words like "renew" and "innovate," so a novel is, at its root, something new. The "-ize" ending came into English through Middle French and Late Latin from Greek "-izein," which is why the suffix is so widely used for turning one thing into another, as in "publicize" or "modernize." "Novelize" applies that pattern to a specific job: taking the story of a film, television show, or game and reworking it as a prose book. "Novelizes" is the third-person singular form, used with "he," "she," "it," or a singular name, as in "the author novelizes the screenplay."

Synonyms: fictionalizes