domesticate
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
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.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: domesticates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: domesticating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: domesticated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: domesticated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: domesticates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make domestic.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make (more) fit for domestic life.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "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."
gloss: To adapt to live with humans.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Russians claim to have successfully domesticated foxes.
gloss: To adapt to live with humans.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Dogs have clearly domesticated more than cats.
gloss: To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: An animal or plant that has been domesticated.
pos: noun
Derived words: domesticatable
domesticated
domestication
domesticator
overdomesticate
redomesticate
self-domesticate
undomesticate
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ընտելացնել
roman: əntelacʻnel
lang: Catalan
word: domesticar
lang: Danish
word: domesticere
lang: Danish
word: tæmme
lang: Danish
word: gøre til husdyr
lang: Dutch
word: domesticeren
lang: French
word: domestiquer
lang: Galician
word: domesticar
lang: German
word: domestizieren
lang: Greek
word: εξημερώνω
roman: eximeróno
lang: Hungarian
word: háziasít
lang: Hungarian
word: domesztikál
lang: Icelandic
word: temja
lang: Ido
word: domestikigar
lang: Italian
word: addomesticare
lang: Italian
word: domesticare
lang: Japanese
word: 馴らす
roman: narasu
lang: Middle English
word: daunten
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: domestisere
lang: Old English
word: temian
lang: Polish
word: udamawiać
lang: Polish
word: udomawiać
lang: Polish
word: udomowiać
lang: Polish
word: udomowić
lang: Portuguese
word: domesticar
lang: Quechua
word: uyway
lang: Romanian
word: domestici
lang: Russian
word: одома́шнивать
roman: odomášnivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: одома́шнить
roman: odomášnitʹ
lang: Spanish
word: domesticar
lang: Swedish
word: domesticera
lang: Turkish
word: ehlileştirmek
lang: Turkish
word: evcilleştirmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: одома́шнювати
roman: odomášnjuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: одома́шнити
roman: odomášnyty
lang: Vietnamese
word: thuần hoá
lang: Armenian
word: ընտելանալ
roman: əntelanal
lang: Danish
word: tæmme
lang: Ido
word: domestikeskar
lang: Polish
word: udamawiać się
lang: Polish
word: udomawiać się
lang: Polish
word: udomowiać się
lang: Polish
word: udomowić się
lang: Portuguese
word: domesticar-se
lang: Spanish
word: domesticarse
lang: Turkish
word: ehlileşmek
lang: Turkish
word: evcilleşmek