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

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.

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 / 归化 (zh) (guīhuà)

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Spanish: (please verify) domesticar (es)

Etymology 2

First attested in 1860; borrowed from Medieval Latin domesticātus (“domesticated”), see Etymology 1 and -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