domesticate

English

WOTD – 19 May 2006

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /dəˈmɛ.stɪ.keɪt/, /-stə-/

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• (noun) IPA^(key): /dəˈmɛ.stɪ.kət/, /-stə-/, /-kɪt/

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• Hyphenation: do‧mes‧ti‧cate

Etymology 1

From domestic +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French domestiquer.

Verb

domesticate (third-person singular simple present domesticates, present participle domesticating, simple past and past participle domesticated)

1. (transitive) To make domestic.
2. (transitive) To make (more) fit for domestic life.
   • 2020, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 4263: Peer Decompression:

     "To answer your question, Tai's fine. She mostly just smokes socially these days." "You're domesticating her!" "We're domesticating each other. The other day I found myself reading a home decorating blog."

3. (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.

   The Russians claim to have successfully domesticated foxes.

4. (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.

   Dogs have clearly domesticated more than cats.

5. (transitive) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
6. (transitive, translation studies) To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.

   Antonym: foreignize

Derived terms

• domesticatable
• domesticated
• domestication
• domesticator
• overdomesticate
• redomesticate
• undomesticate

 

Translations

to make domestic

• Armenian: ընտելացնել (hy) (əntelacʻnel)
• Bulgarian: опитомявам (bg) (opitomjavam)
• Catalan: domesticar (ca)
• Danish: tæmme (da)
• Dutch: domesticeren (nl)
• Finnish: kesyttää (fi)
• Greek: εξημερώνω (el) (eximeróno)
• Old English: temian
• Portuguese: domesticar (pt)
• Romanian: domestici (ro)
• Russian: прируча́ть (ru) impf (priručátʹ), приручи́ть (ru) pf (priručítʹ)
• Spanish: domesticar (es)

to make fit for domestic life

• Bulgarian: опитомявам (bg) (opitomjavam)
• Danish: tæmme (da)
• Dutch: domesticeren (nl)
• Greek: εξημερώνω (el) (eximeróno)
• Old English: temian
• Portuguese: domesticar (pt)
• Spanish: domesticar (es)

(transitive) to adapt to live with humans

• Armenian: ընտելացնել (hy) (əntelacʻnel)
• Catalan: domesticar (ca)
• Danish: domesticere (da), tæmme (da), gøre til husdyr
• Dutch: domesticeren (nl)
• French: domestiquer (fr)
• Galician: domesticar (gl)
• German: domestizieren (de)
• Greek: εξημερώνω (el) (eximeróno)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} ביית (biyét)
• Hungarian: háziasít (hu), domesztikál (hu)
• Icelandic: temja (is)
• Ido: domestikigar (io)
• Italian: addomesticare (it), domesticare (it)
• Japanese: 馴ならす (narasu)
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} припито́мува (pripitómuva)
• Middle English: daunten
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: domestisere

  Nynorsk: ^{(please verify)} domestisere

• Old English: temian
• Polish: udamawiać impf, udomawiać impf, udomowiać impf, udomowić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: domesticar (pt)
• Quechua: uyway
• Romanian: domestici (ro)
• Russian: одома́шнивать (ru) impf (odomášnivatʹ), одома́шнить (ru) pf (odomášnitʹ)
• Spanish: domesticar (es)
• Swedish: domesticera (sv)
• Turkish: ehlileştirmek, evcilleştirmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: одома́шнювати impf (odomášnjuvaty), одома́шнити pf (odomášnyty)
• Vietnamese: thuần hoá (vi)

(intransitive) to adapt to live with humans

• Armenian: ընտելանալ (hy) (əntelanal)
• Danish: tæmme (da)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} domesticeren (nl)
• German: ^{(please verify)} domestizieren (de)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} ביית (biyét)
• Ido: domestikeskar (io)
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} припито́мува (pripitómuva)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ^{(please verify)} domestisere

  Nynorsk: ^{(please verify)} domestisere

• Polish: udamawiać się impf, udomawiać się impf, udomowiać się impf, udomowić się pf
• Portuguese: domesticar-se
• Spanish: domesticarse (es)
• Turkish: ehlileşmek (tr), evcilleşmek (tr)

translation studies

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 歸化きか／归化 (zh) (guīhuà)

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Translations to be checked

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} domesticar (es)

Etymology 2

From domestic +‎ -ate (noun-forming suffix).

Noun

domesticate (plural domesticates)

1. An animal or plant that has been domesticated.

Anagrams

• coestimated, comediettas

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

domesticate

1. inflection of domesticare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

domesticate f pl

1. feminine plural of domesticato

Spanish

Verb

domesticate

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