castrate

English

Etymology 1

From Latin castrātus, past participle of castrō.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kæsˈtɹeɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæs.tɹeɪt/

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Noun

castrate (plural castrates)

1. A castrated man; a eunuch.
   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     The castrate voice had a strange power not duplicated by soprano or countertenor.

Etymology 2

From the past participle stem of Latin castrāre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæs.tɹeɪt/, /kæsˈtɹeɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæs.tɹeɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

castrate (third-person singular simple present castrates, present participle castrating, simple past and past participle castrated)

1. (transitive) To remove the testicles of a person or animal.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129:

     If the priests of Diana of Ephesus castrated themselves and offered their genitals on the altar, it was because the phallus was the symbol of the dying body.

2. (transitive, uncommon) To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal.
3. (transitive, figurative) To take something from; to render imperfect or ineffectual.

Synonyms

• geld (generally used only for animals, especially horses)
• spay f / neuter (generally used only for animals, especially pets)
• sterilize (used for all species and for both genders)

Hyponyms

• emasculate

Derived terms

• castratable
• castratee
• castrater
• castration
• castratism
• castrative
• castrator
• castratrix
• hemicastrate
• immunocastrate
• semicastrate
• uncastrate

 

Translations

remove the testicles of

• Arabic: خَصَى (ḵaṣā)
• Armenian: ամորձատել (amorjatel), մալել (hy) (malel), կրտել (hy) (krtel), ներքինացնել (hy) (nerkʻinacʻnel)
• Aromanian: shuts, acuchescu, dizgãrescu
• Azerbaijani: burmaq (az), axtalamaq
• Belarusian: кастры́раваць impf or pf (kastrýravacʹ), лягча́ць impf (ljahčácʹ), паклада́ць impf (pakladácʹ)
• Bikol Central: tibus
• Bulgarian: скопявам (skopjavam), кастрирам (bg) (kastriram)
• Catalan: castrar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 閹 / 阉 (jim¹)

  Mandarin: 閹割 / 阉割 (zh) (yāngē), 去勢 / 去势 (zh) (qùshì)

• Czech: kastrovat (cs), klestit impf
• Danish: kastrere
• Dutch: castreren (nl)
• Ewe: ta
• Finnish: kuohita (fi), kuohia (fi), kastroida (fi), (dialectal) salvaa (fi)
• French: châtrer (fr), castrer (fr)
• Friulian: cjastrâ, čhastrâ
• Galician: castrar (gl)
• German: kastrieren (de), verschneiden (de)
• Greek: ευνουχίζω (el) (evnouchízo)

  Ancient Greek: εὐνουχίζω (eunoukhízō)

• Hebrew: סירס (he) (serés)
• Hungarian: kasztrál (hu), kiherél (hu), ivartalanít (hu)
• Icelandic: gelda
• Ido: kastrar (io)
• Indonesian: mengebiri (id)
• Ingrian: naittaa
• Italian: castrare (it)
• Japanese: 去勢する (ja) (きょせいする, kyosei-suru)
• Korean: 거세(去勢)하다 (geosehada)
• Lithuanian: rómyti, kastrúoti
• Macedonian: кастрира (kastrira), скопи (skopi)
• Malay: kembiri, kasi (ms)
• Maori: unaka, poka, poka raho
• Mongolian: засах (mn) (zasax), хөнгөлөх (mn) (xöngölöx)
• Norwegian: (however usually colloquially about human males, e.g. sex offenders) gjelle
• Old English: belisnian
• Ottoman Turkish: بورمق (burmak)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: kastrować (pl) impf, wykastrować (pl) pf
• Portuguese: castrar (pt), capar (pt)
• Romanian: castra (ro)
• Russian: кастри́ровать (ru) impf or pf (kastrírovatʹ), скопи́ть (ru) impf (skopítʹ), оскопля́ть (ru) impf (oskopljátʹ), оскопи́ть (ru) pf (oskopítʹ), холости́ть (ru) impf (xolostítʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: spoth
• Slovak: vykastrovať pf
• Spanish: capar (es), castrar (es)
• Swedish: snöpa (sv), kastrera (sv), gälla (sv)
• Tagalog: basigin
• Thai: ตอน (th) (dtɔɔn)
• Tibetan: བྱ་བཅད (bya bcad) (animals), སྒོང་རྡོག་བཏོན (sgong rdog bton) (animals), ཉུག་རུམ་བཟོས (nyug rum bzos) (men)
• Turkish: kısırlaştırmak (tr), hadım etmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: каструва́ти impf or pf (kastruváty), оскопля́ти impf (oskopljáty)
• Vietnamese: thiến (vi)
• Volapük: negenükön (vo)
• West Frisian: lobje

Anagrams

• rascetta, tea carts, teacarts, tear-cats

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

castrate

1. inflection of castrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

castrate f pl

1. feminine plural of castrato

Anagrams

• crestata, scartate, scattare, scatterà, trescata

Latin

Noun

castrāte

1. vocative singular of castrātus

Spanish

Verb

castrate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of castrar combined with te