castrate.
A castrated man; a eunuch.
Meaning & usage
A castrated man; a eunuch.
Where this word comes from
Likely from an unattested sense of Middle English castrat (“(adjective) castrated; (noun) a castrated animal”), substantivized borrowing of Latin castrātus, perfect passive participle of castrō (“to prune, amputate, castrate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix)).
To remove the testicles of a person or animal.
To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal.
To take something from; to render imperfect or ineffectual.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin castrātus, perfect passive participle of Latin castrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Displaced native geld in its broader sense.
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