castrate
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Latin castrātus, past participle of castrō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
castrate (plural castrates)
- 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[edit]
From the past participle stem of Latin castrāre.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
castrate (third-person singular simple present castrates, present participle castrating, simple past and past participle castrated)
- (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.
- (transitive) To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal.
- (transitive, figurative) To take something from; to render imperfect or ineffectual.
Synonyms[edit]
- 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)
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Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Translations[edit]
remove the testicles of
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Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
castrate
- inflection of castrare:
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
castrate f pl
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
castrāte
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