domesticated

English

domesticated red fox

Etymology

Etymology tree

English domesticate

English -ed

English domesticated

From domesticate + -ed.

Verb

domesticated

1. simple past and past participle of domesticate

Adjective

domesticated (comparative more domesticated, superlative most domesticated)

1. Selectively bred to live with or around humans. (of an animal or a plant, especially a pet)
   • 1856, Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, Volume 4:

     But I can take the calves and learn them to work and give milk, and learn them to become domesticated and useful.

Antonyms

• undomesticated

Derived terms

• domesticatedness
• nondomesticated
• predomesticated
• semidomesticated
• semi-domesticated

Translations

selectively bred to live with or around humans

• Arabic: أَلِيف (ʔalīf)
• Azerbaijani: əhli, əhliləşmiş
• Catalan: domesticat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 家養的 / 家养的 (jiāyǎng de), 馴化的 / 驯化的 (xùnhuà de), 馴養的 / 驯养的 (xùnyǎng de)

• Estonian: kodustatud
• Finnish: koti- (fi) (used of animals like horse, cat etc), kesy (fi), kesytetty (fi)
• French: domestiqué (fr)
• Galician: domesticado m
• Greek: εξημερωμένος (el) m (eximeroménos)
• Hungarian: háziasított (hu), domesztikált (hu)
• Ido: domestika (io)
• Malayalam: വളർത്ത് (vaḷaṟttŭ)
• Mongolian: тэжээвэр (mn) (težeever)
• Navajo: bílaʼashdlaʼii bi-
• Polish: udomowiony
• Portuguese: domesticado (pt)
• Quechua: uywa (qu)
• Russian: ручно́й (ru) (ručnój), приручённый (ru) (priručónnyj)
• Spanish: amaestrado (es), adiestrado (es) m
• Swedish: tam (sv), domesticerad (sv)
• Tagalog: amak (tl)

See also

• tame