castration

castration

English

Etymology

castrate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæˈstɹeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

castration (countable and uncountable, plural castrations)

1. (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.

2. (figuratively) Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.

Synonyms

• (surgery): orchiectomy

Derived terms

• anti-castration
• chemical castration
• castration anxiety

Related terms

• castrate
• castrati

Translations

act of removing the testicles

Arabic: إِخْصَاء‎ m (ʾiḵṣāʾ) 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 (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 (ṣaṇḍīkaraṇaṃ), വരി ഉടയ്‌ക്കൽ (vari uṭay‌kkal) (animals) Norwegian: Bokmål: kastrasjon m, kastrering m or f Nynorsk: kastrasjon m, kastrering f 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

• emasculation
• testiclectomy
• desex
• geld
• neuter
• spay

Anagrams

• action star, arctations

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kas.tʁa.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

castration f (plural castrations)

1. castration

Further reading

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