## AI Etymology
aromatize comes from aromatic (from Greek aromatikós, from árōma 'spice, fragrant herb') plus the verb suffix -ize. Morphologically, the word is transparent: -ize is attached to the older base named in the history, so the modern form packages an inherited or borrowed stem inside a later English derivative. In modern use, the verb sense is "to make aromatic, or in chemistry to convert into an aromatic compound", which keeps the etymology connected to the word's present dictionary value rather than treating it as a merely historical label. The wider word family includes related English forms such as aroma, aromatic, aromatase and derivatives such as aromatization, showing how the same base continues to support neighboring English vocabulary. The principal historical forms in the chain include Ancient Greek árōma, which anchor the explanation in named linguistic material.

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