https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sophont

You could use the root of Sophont, the greek Sophos (wise) as the root for that:
sophomorphize (to change into a sophont).

The other option might be to use the root of Sentient, if you don't mind merging
latin with greek roots. so sentienmorphize. (to change into a feeling creature).

On 10/5/2023 7:15 PM, Jeff Zeitlin - editor at freelancetraveller.com (via tml
list) wrote:
> I have an article for a future issue of Freelance Traveller that uses the
> word "anthropomorphize". It's perfectly correct, but in context it is used
> not meaning "attributing human characteristics to an animal or object", but
> meaning "attributing the characteristics of a sophont to an animal or
> object". I'm willing to leave the word as-is, but if someone can come up
> with a different word, even a neologism, that better captures the
> generalized meaning, without relying on the Greek root _anthropos_, which
> technically means "man" (and excludes "woman"), I'd be appreciative.
>
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