英和和英

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /kæsˈtɹeɪt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkæs.tɹeɪt/

名詞

castrate (plural castrates)

1. A castrated man; a eunuch.
   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     The castrate voice had a strange power not duplicated by soprano or countertenor.

語源 2

Borrowed from Latin castrātus, perfect passive participle of Latin castrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Displaced native geld in its broader sense.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkæs.tɹeɪt/, /kæsˈtɹeɪt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkæs.tɹeɪt/
• 韻: -eɪt

動詞

castrate (third-person singular simple present castrates, present participle castrating, simple past and past participle castrated)

1. (transitive) To remove the testicles of a person or animal.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129:

     If the priests of Diana of Ephesus castrated themselves and offered their genitals on the altar, it was because the phallus was the symbol of the dying body.

2. (transitive, uncommon) To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal.
3. (transitive, figurative) To take something from; to render imperfect or ineffectual.

同意語

• geld (generally used only for animals, especially horses)
• spay f / neuter (generally used only for animals, especially pets)
• sterilize (used for all species and for both genders)
• alter (castrate or spay an animal; informal (North America, Australia))

下位語

• emasculate

派生語

アナグラム

• rascetta, tea carts, teacarts, tear-cats