Dictionary

domestication en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English domesticate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English domestication From domesticate + -ion.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) The act of domesticating a text.

Forms

Deriveds

self-domestication · peridomestication · geodomestication · codomestication · overdomestication · dedomestication · postdomestication · semidomestication · neodomestication · domestication syndrome · predomestication · undomestication

Translations (23)

ar اِسْتِئْنَاس (the action of taming) · hu háziasítás (the action of taming) · ms pembelajinakan (the action of taming) · es domesticación (the action of taming) · bg опитомяване (the action of taming) · pt domesticação (the action of taming) · el εξημέρωση (the action of taming) · he ביות (the action of taming) · fr domestication (the action of taming) · ru одома́шнивание (the action of taming) · ru доместика́ция (the action of taming) · de Domestizierung (the action of taming) · ms pendomestikan (the action of taming) · uk одома́шнення (the action of taming) · nl domesticatie (the action of taming) · fi kesytys (the action of taming) · cmn 馴化 /驯化 (the action of taming) · tl sapaamo (the action of taming) · ms domestikasi (the action of taming) · ro domesticire (the action of taming) · it domesticazione (the action of taming) · ca domesticació (the action of taming) · sv domesticering (the action of taming)