domesticated

English

Etymology

domesticate +‎ -ed

Verb

domesticated

1. simple past and past participle of domesticate

Adjective

domesticated (comparative more domesticated, superlative most domesticated)

1. (of an animal or a plant, especially a pet) selectively bred to live with or around humans.
   • 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

• 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-
• 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