subjugate

English

Etymology

Romans Under the Yoke (1858), Charles Gleyre

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin subiugatus, past participle of subiugare (“to bring under the yoke, subjugate”), from sub (“under”) + iugum (“yoke”). See yoke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌbdʒəɡeɪt/
• Hyphenation: sub‧ju‧gate

Verb

1. (transitive) To forcibly impose obedience or servitude upon.

Synonyms

• underyoke

Related terms

• subjugation

Translations

to forcibly impose obedience or servitude

• Catalan: subjugar (ca)
• French: assujettir (fr)
• German: unterjochen (de), unterwerfen (de)
• Hungarian: leigáz (hu)
• Latin: subiugō (Classical), redūcō (Mediaeval)
• Maori: whakataurekareka, whakataurekareka, tāmi, pāpā, pēhi
• Middle English: daunten
• Norwegian: underkue, underlegge
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Persian: منقاد کردن (monqâd kardan)
• Polish: podporządkowywać impf, podporządkować (pl) pf
• Portuguese: subjugar (pt)
• Romanian: subjuga (ro)
• Russian: порабощать (ru) (poraboščatʹ), покорять (ru) (pokorjatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: podjármiti (sh), podvlástiti (sh), podčìniti (sh), potčìniti, podvrgnuti (sh)
• Spanish: sojuzgar (es)
• Swedish: underkuva (sv)

Further reading

• “subjugate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “subjugate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) subjugāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of subjugō