domestication

English

Etymology

domesticate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.

Translations

The act of domesticating the action of taming

• Bulgarian: опитомяване n (opitomjavane)
• Catalan: domesticació f
• Dutch: domesticatie (nl) f
• French: domestication (fr) f
• German: Domestizierung f
• Greek: εξημέρωση (el) f (eximérosi)
• Hebrew: ביות (he) m (biut)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: háziasítás
• Malay: pembelajinakan, pendomestikan, domestikasi
• Romanian: domesticire (ro) f
• Spanish: domesticación (es) f
• Swedish: domesticering c
• Tagalog: sapaamo

Anagrams

• ectinosomatid

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

domestication f (plural domestications)

1. domestication

Related terms

• domestique
• domestiquer

Further reading

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