Other forms: publicised, publicising, publicises
To publicise is to make something widely known. Publicise the event, widely publicised, publicise the findings.
It means getting attention for something rather than merely announcing it, which is why it belongs to campaigns and launches. Americans spell it with a z. A well publicised case is one everybody has heard of, which is not the same as an important one.
1verbpubliciseTo make something widely known.
“The band used social media to publicise their first concert.”
publicise is a making known.
Also accepted in games: publicize
Proto-Indo-European
*pleh₁- — to fill
Proto-Italic
*poplos — army
Latin
pūblicus — of or belonging to the community, people, or state; general, public
Old French
public — (adjective) generally observable, public; relating to the general public; official; (noun) community or its members collectively; nation, state; audience, spectators collectively
Middle French
public
Anglo-Norman
public
Middle English
publik
English
public
English, today
publicise
Built from
From public + -ise. public The adjective and noun are derived from Late Middle English publik, publike (“(adjective) generally observable, public; relating to the general public or public affairs; (noun) a generally observable place or situation”), from Anglo-Norman public, publik, publique, Middle French public, publique, and Old French public (“(adjective) generally observable, public; relating to the general public; official; (noun) community or its members collectively; nation, state; audience, spectators collectively”) (modern French public, publique obsolete); and from their etymon Latin pūblicus (“of or belonging to the community, people, or state; general, public”), an alteration of poplicus (influenced by pūbēs (“adult men; male population”)), from poplus (“community; the people, public; nation, state”) (later populus; from Proto-Italic poplos (“army”); further origin uncertain, possibly from ett - or from Proto-Indo-European pleh₁- (“to fill”)) + -icus. Related to people, populus etc. The Middle English word displaced native Old English ceorlfolc and folclic. The verb is derived from the adjective.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA