castration

English

Etymology

castrate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kæˈstɹeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

castration (countable and uncountable, plural castrations)

(surgery) The act of removing the testicles.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 125:
  Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.
(figuratively) Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.

Synonyms

(surgery): orchiectomy

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

act of removing the testicles

Arabic: إِخْصَاء m (ʔiḵṣāʔ)
Bulgarian: кастра́ция f (kastrácija), скопяване n (skopjavane)
Catalan: castració f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 去勢／去势 (zh) (qùshì), 閹割／阉割 (zh) (yāngē), (historical) 腐刑 (zh) (fǔxíng), 宮刑／宫刑 (zh) (gōngxíng)
Czech: kastrace (cs) f
Danish: kastrering c, kastration (da) c
Dutch: castratie (nl) f
Finnish: kastraatio (fi), kastrointi (fi), kuohinta (fi), kuohiminen (fi)
French: castration (fr) f
German: Kastrierung f, Hodenentfernung f
Greek: ευνουχισμός (el) m (evnouchismós)
Hebrew: סירוס m (sirus')
Indonesian: pengebirian (id)
Italian: castrazione (it) f
Japanese: 去勢 (ja) (きょせい, kyosei), (historical) 宮刑 (ja) (きゅうけい, kyūkei), 腐刑 (ja) (ふけい, fukei)
Kazakh: піштіру (pıştıru), тарттыру (tarttyru)
Korean: 거세(去勢) (geose), 궁형(宮刑) (ko) (gunghyeong)
Latvian: kastrācija f, kastrēšana f
Malay: pengasian, pengembirian
Malayalam: ഷണ്ഡീകരണം (ṣaṇḍīkaraṇaṁ), വരി ഉടയ്‌ക്കൽ (vari uṭay‌kkal) (animals)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kastrasjon m, kastrering m or f

Nynorsk: kastrasjon m, kastrering f
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: kastracja (pl) f
Portuguese: castração (pt) f
Russian: кастра́ция (ru) f (kastrácija)
Scottish Gaelic: spothadh m
Spanish: castración (es) f
Swedish: kastrering c
Turkish: burma (tr), eneme (tr), kastrasyon, iğdiş etme
Vietnamese: sự thiến (vi) (事騸)

figurative: removal of power

Bulgarian: обезсилване (bg) n (obezsilvane)
Danish: kastrering c, kastration (da) c
Greek: ευνουχισμός (el) m (evnouchismós)
Japanese: 去勢 (ja) (きょせい, kyosei)

See also

Anagrams

action star, arctations

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kas.tʁa.sjɔ̃/

Audio (file)

Noun

castration f (plural castrations)

castration

Further reading

“castration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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