domesticate

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. (transitive) To make domestic.
2. (transitive) To make (more) fit for domestic life.
3. (transitive) To adapt to live with humans.
4. (intransitive) To adapt to live with humans.
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) To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.

Noun

An animal or plant that has been domesticated.

Teenoorgestelde van

foreignize

Sinonieme

tame

train

🚋

reclaim

domesticise

domesticize

naturalize

win over

cultivate

naturalise

rear

tam

tend

get accustomed to

make fit in

be gentle

be docile

house-train

break

be tame

break in

breed

care for

civilize

control

gentle

nurture

raise

Vertalings

domestiquer

domesticar

domesticar

apprivoiser

dompter

addomesticare

εξημερώνω

temmen

zähmen

domesticeren

domestizieren

ammansire

domare

dominar

haber domesticado

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dəˈmɛ.stɪ.keɪt/

Etimologie (Engels)

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.