Dictionary

castrate en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /kæsˈtɹeɪt/ (UK)
• /ˈkæs.tɹeɪt/ (General-American)

Etymology

Likely from an unattested sense of Middle English castrat (“(adjective) castrated; (noun) a castrated animal”), substantivized borrowing of Latin castrātus, perfect passive participle of castrō (“to prune, amputate, castrate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix)).

Meanings

1. A castrated man; a eunuch.
   • The castrate voice had a strange power not duplicated by soprano or countertenor. 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

Forms

castrate en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈkæs.tɹeɪt/ (UK)
• /kæsˈtɹeɪt/ (UK)
• /ˈkæs.tɹeɪt/ (General-American)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin castrātus, perfect passive participle of Latin castrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Displaced native geld in its broader sense.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To remove the testicles of a person or animal.
   • If the priests of Diana of Ephesus castrated themselves and offered their genitals on the altar, it was because the phallus was the symbol of the dying body. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129:
2. (transitive, uncommon) To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To take something from; to render imperfect or ineffectual.
   • behold the Eunuch of castrated thought 2002, Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis, Methuen, →ISBN, page 40:

Forms

Deriveds

castratism · hemicastrate · uncastrate · castrator · castratrix · castrater · castratee · castration · immunocastrate · castratable · castrative · semicastrate

Hyponyms

emasculate

Synonyms

alter · geld · spay f · sterilize · neuter

Translations (95)

sv kastrera (remove the testicles of) · ee ta (remove the testicles of) · fr castrer (remove the testicles of) · be кастры́раваць (remove the testicles of) · lt kastrúoti (remove the testicles of) · pl wykastrować (remove the testicles of) · hy մալել (remove the testicles of) · ru оскопи́ть (remove the testicles of) · tr kısırlaştırmak (remove the testicles of) · fy lobje (remove the testicles of) · tl basigin (remove the testicles of) · ja 去勢する (remove the testicles of) · bg кастрирам (remove the testicles of) · da kastrere (remove the testicles of) · cmn 去勢 /去势 (remove the testicles of) · cs klestit (remove the testicles of) · fi salvaa (remove the testicles of) · bo ཉུག་རུམ་བཟོས (remove the testicles of) · es castrar (remove the testicles of) · ang belisnian (remove the testicles of) · az burmaq (remove the testicles of) · hy ամորձատել (remove the testicles of) · es capar (remove the testicles of) · tr hadım etmek (remove the testicles of) · cs kastrovat (remove the testicles of) · pt capar (remove the testicles of) · izh naittaa (remove the testicles of) · no gjelle (remove the testicles of) · rup shuts (remove the testicles of) · bcl tibus (remove the testicles of) · sv gälla (remove the testicles of) · de verschneiden (remove the testicles of) · hu kasztrál (remove the testicles of) · ca castrar (remove the testicles of) · sv snöpa (remove the testicles of) · gd spoth (remove the testicles of) · yue 閹 /阉 (remove the testicles of) · mi poka (remove the testicles of) · ru скопи́ть (remove the testicles of) · fi kuohita (remove the testicles of) · mn хөнгөлөх (remove the testicles of) · hu kiherél (remove the testicles of) · mn засах (remove the testicles of) · is gelda (remove the testicles of) · tr iğdiş etmek (remove the testicles of) · ga coill (remove the testicles of) · la castrō (remove the testicles of) · fi kuohia (remove the testicles of) · lt rómyti (remove the testicles of) · bo སྒོང་རྡོག་བཏོན (remove the testicles of) · vo negenükön (remove the testicles of) · mi poka raho (remove the testicles of) · uk каструва́ти (remove the testicles of) · hy կրտել (remove the testicles of) · mk скопи (remove the testicles of) · pt castrar (remove the testicles of) · cmn 閹割 /阉割 (remove the testicles of) · pl kastrować (remove the testicles of) · ms kasi (remove the testicles of) · az axtalamaq (remove the testicles of) · fi kastroida (remove the testicles of) · ru оскопля́ть (remove the testicles of) · el ευνουχίζω (remove the testicles of) · sk vykastrovať (remove the testicles of) · bg скопявам (remove the testicles of) · grc εὐνουχίζω (remove the testicles of) · ru холости́ть (remove the testicles of) · mk кастрира (remove the testicles of) · th ตอน (remove the testicles of) · rup acuchescu (remove the testicles of) · vi thiến (remove the testicles of) · id mengebiri (remove the testicles of) · uk оскопля́ти (remove the testicles of) · ro castra (remove the testicles of) · be паклада́ць (remove the testicles of) · ko 거세(去勢)하다 (remove the testicles of) · mi unaka (remove the testicles of) · de kastrieren (remove the testicles of) · ar خَصَى (remove the testicles of) · fur cjastrâ (remove the testicles of) · ru кастри́ровать (remove the testicles of) · nl castreren (remove the testicles of) · be лягча́ць (remove the testicles of) · rup dizgãrescu (remove the testicles of) · it castrare (remove the testicles of) · ota بورمق (remove the testicles of) · fur čhastrâ (remove the testicles of) · io kastrar (remove the testicles of) · fr châtrer (remove the testicles of) · he סירס (remove the testicles of) · ms kembiri (remove the testicles of) · bo བྱ་བཅད (remove the testicles of) · hu ivartalanít (remove the testicles of) · hy ներքինացնել (remove the testicles of) · gl castrar (remove the testicles of)