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domesticate

verb
/dəˈmɛ.stɪ.keɪt//dəˈmɛ.stɪ.kət/

Etymology

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.

  1. borrowed from domesticātus
  2. borrowed from domestiquer

Definitions

  1. To make domestic.

  2. To make (more) fit for domestic life.

    • "To answer your question, Tai's fine. She mostly just smokes socially these days." "You're domesticating her!" "We're domesticating each other. The other day I found myself reading a home decorating blog."

  3. To adapt to live with humans.

    • The Russians claim to have successfully domesticated foxes.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the…

      To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.

    2. To amend the elements of a text to fit local culture.

    3. An animal or plant that has been domesticated.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at domesticate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01domesticate02live03permanent04hair05growing06raising07cultivation08agriculture09livestock10domesticated

A definitional loop anchored at domesticate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at domesticate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA