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GeezerVison is showing en.wiktionary.org — emasculation - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

See also: émasculation

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English emasculate
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English emasculation

    From emasculate + -ion.

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

    Noun

    emasculation (countable and uncountable, plural emasculations)

    1. (medicine) The removal of the penis, testicles, and scrotum of (a male person or animal).
    2. The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
    3. The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigour or effectiveness.
      The authoritarian regime oversaw the total emasculation of the country's judiciary.

    Hypernyms

    • (total removal of male genitalia): castration

    Derived terms

    • auto-emasculation

    Related terms

    • emasculate

    Translations

    castration
    • Bulgarian: скопяване (skopjavane), кастриране (bg) n (kastrirane)
    • Catalan: emasculació f
    • French: émasculation (fr) f
    • German: Entmannung (de) f
    • Serbo-Croatian: kastriranje n
    • Spanish: emasculación (es) f
    deprived of vigor
    • Bulgarian: обезсилване (bg) n (obezsilvane)
    • Spanish: acabado (es) m

    See also

    • effemination
    • feminine
    • masculine
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