domesticated

domesticated

English

Etymology

domesticate +‎ -ed

Verb

domesticated

1. simple past tense and past participle of domesticate

Adjective

domesticated (comparative more domesticated, superlative most domesticated)

1. (of an animal or a plant, especially a pet) selectively bred to live with or around humans.
   • 1856, Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, Volume 4:

     But I can take the calves and learn them to work and give milk, and learn them to become domesticated and useful.

Antonyms

• undomesticated

Derived terms

• semi-domesticated

Translations

selectively bred to live with or around humans

Arabic: أَلِيف‎ (ʾalīf) Azerbaijani: əhli, əhliləşmiş Catalan: domesticat m Chinese: Mandarin: 家養的／家养的 (jiāyǎng de), 馴化的／驯化的 (xùnhuà de), 馴養的／驯养的 (xùnyǎng de) Estonian: kodustatud Finnish: koti- (fi) (used of animals like horse, cat etc), kesy (fi), kesytetty (fi) French: domestiqué (fr) Galician: domesticado m Greek: εξημερωμένος (el) m (eximeroménos) Hungarian: háziasított (hu), domesztikált Ido: domestika (io) Malayalam: വളർത്ത് (vaḷaṟttŭ) Mongolian: тэжээвэр (mn) (težeever) Navajo: bílaʼashdlaʼii bi- Portuguese: domesticado (pt) Quechua: uywa (qu) Russian: ручно́й (ru) (ručnój), приручённый (ru) (priručónnyj) Spanish: amaestrado (es), adiestrado (es) m Swedish: tam (sv), domesticerad (sv) Tagalog: amak (tl)

See also

• tame