English Etymology 1 From (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Latin castrātus castrō
Pronunciation Noun 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 From the past participle stem of (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Latin castrāre
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( transitive ) testicles of an animal.( transitive ) ovaries and/or uterus of an animal.( transitive , figurative ) imperfect or ineffectual .Synonyms emasculate geld ( used only of animals, especially horses ) spay f neuter ( used only of animals, especially pets ) sterilize ( used for all species and for both genders ) Derived terms Translations remove the testicles of
Arabic: خَصَى ( ḵaṣā )
Aromanian: shuts acuchescu dizgãrescu
Azerbaijani: burmaq (az)
Belarusian: кастры́раваць impf or pf ( kastrýravacʹ ) , лягча́ць impf ( ljahčácʹ ) , паклада́ць impf ( pakladácʹ )
Bulgarian: скопявам ( skopjavam ) , кастрирам ( kastriram )
Catalan: castrar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 閹割 ／ 阉割 (zh) ( yāngē ) , 阉割 (zh) ( yāngē ) , 去勢 ／ 去势 (zh) ( qùshì ) , 去势 (zh) ( qùshì )
Czech: kastrovat (cs)
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)
Greek: ευνουχίζω (el) ( evnouchízo )
Ancient Greek: εὐνουχίζω ( eunoukhízō )
Hebrew: סירס ( serés )
Hungarian: kasztrál kiherél (hu) , ivartalanít
Ido: kastrar (io)
Indonesian: mengebiri (id)
Italian: castrare (it)
Japanese: 去勢する (ja) ( きょせいする, kyosei-suru )
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Korean: 거세하다 ( geose-hada ) (去勢 (ko) + 하다 (ko) ( hada ) )
Malay: kembiri kasi
Maori: unaka poka poka raho
Mongolian: засах (mn) ( zasax ) , хөнгөлөх (mn) ( xöngölöx )
Norwegian: ( however usually colloquially about human males, e.g. sex offenders ) gjelle
Polish: kastrować (pl)
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
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 hadım etmek (tr)
Ukrainian: каструва́ти impf or pf ( kastruváty ) , оскопля́ти impf ( oskopljáty )
Vietnamese: thiến (vi)
Volapük: negenükön (vo)
West Frisian: lobje
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Anagrams Italian Verb castrate
second-person plural present indicative of castrare second-person plural imperative of castrare feminine plural of castrato Anagrams Latin Noun (deprecated template usage ) castrāte
vocative singular of castrātus