English Explanatory Dictionary

domesticate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To make domestic.
  2. To make (more) fit for domestic life.
  3. To adapt to live with humans.
  4. To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
  5. To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.
noun
  1. An animal or plant that has been domesticated.

Pronunciation

/dəˈmɛ.stɪ.keɪt/ /-stə-/ en-us-domesticate.ogg /dəˈmɛ.stɪ.kət/ /-kɪt/ en-us-domesticate-noun.ogg en-au-domesticate.ogg

Word forms

domesticate domesticates domesticating domesticated

Etymology

First attested in 1620; either borrowed from Middle French domestiquer (Modern French domestiquer) or directly from Medieval Latin domesticātus, perfect passive participle of domesticō (“to domesticate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, domestic + -ate.

Antonyms

foreignize

Derived words

domesticatable domesticated domestication domesticator overdomesticate redomesticate self-domesticate undomesticate

Translations

Armenian: ընտելացնել Armenian: ընտելանալ Catalan: domesticar Danish: domesticere Danish: tæmme Danish: gøre til husdyr Dutch: domesticeren French: domestiquer Galician: domesticar German: domestizieren Greek: εξημερώνω Hungarian: háziasít Hungarian: domesztikál Icelandic: temja Ido: domestikigar Ido: domestikeskar Italian: addomesticare Italian: domesticare Japanese: 馴らす Middle English: daunten Norwegian Bokmål: domestisere Old English: temian Polish: udamawiać Polish: udomawiać Polish: udomowiać Polish: udomowić Polish: udamawiać się Polish: udomawiać się Polish: udomowiać się Polish: udomowić się Portuguese: domesticar Portuguese: domesticar-se Quechua: uyway Romanian: domestici Russian: одома́шнивать Russian: одома́шнить Spanish: domesticar Spanish: domesticarse Swedish: domesticera Turkish: ehlileştirmek Turkish: evcilleştirmek Turkish: ehlileşmek Turkish: evcilleşmek Ukrainian: одома́шнювати Ukrainian: одома́шнити Vietnamese: thuần hoá
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