emasculate.
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld.
Meaning & usage
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld.
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld. To remove the entire male genitalia (the testicles, scrotum, and penis) of (a person or animal).
To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
Of a flower: to deprive of the anthers.
Where this word comes from
From Medieval Latin ēmasculātus, perfect passive participle of ēmasculō (“to emasculate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ē(x)- (“out, from, apart”) + masculus (“male, masculine”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), further from mās (“a man, a male”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned, weak.
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ēmasculātus (more at Etymology 1), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
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