émasculer

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ēmasculāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.mas.ky.le/

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• Homophones: émasculai, émasculé, émasculée, émasculées, émasculés, émasculez
• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: é‧mas‧cu‧ler

Verb

émasculer

1. (transitive) to emasculate (to deprive a male of the organs of reproduction)

   Synonyms: castrer, châtrer

2. (transitive, figuratively, literary) to emasculate (to make weak, to deprive one of one's strength, to strip of one's original strength)

   Synonyms: abâtardir, amollir

Conjugation

Conjugation of émasculer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	émasculer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	émasculant /e.mas.ky.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		émasculé /e.mas.ky.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	émascule /e.mas.kyl/	émascules /e.mas.kyl/	émascule /e.mas.kyl/	émasculons /e.mas.ky.lɔ̃/	émasculez /e.mas.ky.le/	émasculent /e.mas.kyl/
	imperfect	émasculais /e.mas.ky.lɛ/	émasculais /e.mas.ky.lɛ/	émasculait /e.mas.ky.lɛ/	émasculions /e.mas.ky.ljɔ̃/	émasculiez /e.mas.ky.lje/	émasculaient /e.mas.ky.lɛ/
	past historic2	émasculai /e.mas.ky.le/	émasculas /e.mas.ky.la/	émascula /e.mas.ky.la/	émasculâmes /e.mas.ky.lam/	émasculâtes /e.mas.ky.lat/	émasculèrent /e.mas.ky.lɛʁ/
	future	émasculerai /e.mas.kyl.ʁe/	émasculeras /e.mas.kyl.ʁa/	émasculera /e.mas.kyl.ʁa/	émasculerons /e.mas.kyl.ʁɔ̃/	émasculerez /e.mas.kyl.ʁe/	émasculeront /e.mas.kyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	émasculerais /e.mas.kyl.ʁɛ/	émasculerais /e.mas.kyl.ʁɛ/	émasculerait /e.mas.kyl.ʁɛ/	émasculerions /e.mas.ky.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	émasculeriez /e.mas.ky.lə.ʁje/	émasculeraient /e.mas.kyl.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	émascule /e.mas.kyl/	émascules /e.mas.kyl/	émascule /e.mas.kyl/	émasculions /e.mas.ky.ljɔ̃/	émasculiez /e.mas.ky.lje/	émasculent /e.mas.kyl/
	imperfect2	émasculasse /e.mas.ky.las/	émasculasses /e.mas.ky.las/	émasculât /e.mas.ky.la/	émasculassions /e.mas.ky.la.sjɔ̃/	émasculassiez /e.mas.ky.la.sje/	émasculassent /e.mas.ky.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	émascule /e.mas.kyl/	—	émasculons /e.mas.ky.lɔ̃/	émasculez /e.mas.ky.le/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• émasculation

 

References

• “émasculer” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “émasculer” in Le Dictionnaire.
• “émasculer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “émasculer” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.