domestication

English

Etymology

From domesticate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

domestication (countable and uncountable, plural domestications)

1. The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.
2. The act of domesticating, or making a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
3. (translation studies) The act of domesticating a text.

Derived terms

• dedomestication
• domestication syndrome
• geodomestication
• neodomestication
• overdomestication
• peridomestication
• postdomestication
• predomestication
• semidomestication
• undomestication

Translations

The act of domesticating the action of taming

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
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• Bulgarian: опитомяване n (opitomjavane)
• Catalan: domesticació f
• Dutch: domesticatie (nl) f
• French: domestication (fr) f
• German: Domestizierung (de) f
• Greek: εξημέρωση (el) f (eximérosi)
• Hebrew: ביות (he) m (biut)
• Hungarian: háziasítás (hu)
• Italian: domesticazione (it) f
• Malay: pembelajinakan, pendomestikan, domestikasi
• Portuguese: domesticação f
• Romanian: domesticire (ro) f
• Russian: одома́шнивание (ru) n (odomášnivanije), доместика́ция (ru) f (domestikácija)
• Spanish: domesticación (es) f
• Swedish: domesticering (sv) c
• Tagalog: sapaamo
• Ukrainian: одома́шнення n (odomášnennja)

Anagrams

• ectinosomatid

French

Etymology

From domestiquer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.mɛs.ti.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

domestication f (plural domestications)

1. domestication (action of taming wild animals or breeding plants)

See also

• apprivoiser
• dompter

Further reading

• “domestication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.