procreate

English

Etymology

From Latin prōcreō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɹəʊkɹiˈeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

procreate (third-person singular simple present procreates, present participle procreating, simple past and past participle procreated)

1. (transitive) To beget or conceive (offspring).
2. (transitive) To originate, create or produce something.
3. (intransitive) To reproduce.

Translations

to beget

• Catalan: procrear (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生育 (zh) (shēngyù), 生殖 (zh) (shēngzhí), 產生／产生 (zh) (chǎnshēng)

• Dutch: verwekken (nl)
• Finnish: hedelmöittää (fi), siittää (fi)
• French: procréer (fr)
• Galician: procrear (gl), facer fillos
• German: zeugen (de), sich fortpflanzen (de), sich vermehren (de)
• Italian: generare (it), procreare (it)
• Japanese: 生む (ja) (うむ, umu), 生殖する (ja) (せいしょくする, seishoku suru)
• Latin: prōcreō
• Macedonian: ра́ѓа (ráǵa), со́здава по́томство (sózdava pótomstvo)
• Ngazidja Comorian: uzaya
• Romanian: procrea (ro)
• Russian: производи́ть пото́мство impf (proizvodítʹ potómstvo), произвести́ пото́мство pf (proizvestí potómstvo), порожда́ть (ru) impf (poroždátʹ), породи́ть (ru) pf (porodítʹ), рожа́ть (ru) impf (rožátʹ), рожда́ть (ru) impf (roždátʹ), роди́ть (ru) pf (rodítʹ), производи́ть на свет impf (proizvodítʹ na svet), произвести́ на свет pf (proizvestí na svet)
• Sanskrit: जनयति (sa) (janayati)
• Spanish: procrear (es), reproducirse (es)
• Swedish: föröka (sv) sig, fortplanta (sv) sig

to procreate — see beget

Italian

Verb

procreate

1. inflection of procreare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person plural imperative
   3. feminine plural past participle

Anagrams

• percoterà

Latin

Verb

prōcreāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of prōcreō

Spanish

Verb

procreate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of procrear combined with te