'angularize' originates from English, built from the adjective 'angular' (from Latin 'angulus' meaning 'corner, angle') plus the verbal suffix '-ize' meaning 'to make or render.'

'angularize' formed in Modern English by compounding 'angular' + '-ize'; 'angular' entered English via Middle English and French from Latin 'angulus', and the productive suffix '-ize' comes via French and Latin from Greek '-izein'.

Initially, it meant 'to make angular'; later, a technical sense developed: 'to approximate a curved form with straight segments,' while the original sense remains in stylistic and descriptive use.