Other forms: baptized, baptizing, baptizes
To baptize is to admit somebody to a church by washing with water. Baptize an infant.
Churches differ over whether it is done to babies or to adults who choose it. The British usually spell it baptise, and both spellings are correct.
1verbbaptizeTo admit somebody to a church by washing with water.
“They chose to baptize all three children on the same afternoon.”
baptize is a rite.
Also accepted in games: baptise
Greek baptizein means to dip or immerse, from baptein, to dip.
Middle English
baptisen
English, today
baptize
From Middle English baptisen. From Middle English baptisen, baptizen, from Old French baptiser, batisier, from Ecclesiastical Latin -, Latin baptizo, from Ancient Greek βαπτίζω (“to immerse, plunge, baptize”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA