evirate

English

Etymology

From Latin ēvirātus, perfect passive participle of ēvirō (“I emasculate”), from ē (“out of”) + vir (“man”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛvɪɹeɪt/

Verb

evirate (third-person singular simple present evirates, present participle evirating, simple past and past participle evirated)

1. To castrate.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:

     Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.

   • 1846, Walter Savage Landor, edited by J. Forster, The works of Walter Savage Landor:

     The pope offered a hundred marks in Latin to who should eviscerate or evirate him (poisons very potent, whereat the Italians are handy), so apostolic and desperate a doctor is Dr. Glaston, — so acute in his quiddities, and so resolute in his bearing!

2. To render weak or unmanly.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

evirate

1. inflection of evirare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

evirate f pl

1. feminine plural of evirato

Anagrams

• evitare, eviterà, riavete, varieté, vietare, vieterà

Latin

Verb

ēvirāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēvirō