castration

English

Etymology

From castrate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæˈstɹeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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.

   • 2019, “A Rape of Sirens”, performed by Infant Annihilator, Alex Terrible:

     The harlots' harmony echos within our cave of castration
     Accenting the weeps from the men remade as women; stripped of their appendages
     Probed and beaten
     A cult of deviant savages seducing bastards in the darkness

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

Synonyms

• (surgery): orchiectomy

Derived terms

• alimentary castration
• anti-castration
• autocastration
• cashtration
• castration anxiety
• chemical castration
• elastration
• hemicastration
• immunocastration
• postcastration
• semicastration

 

Related terms

• castrate
• castrati

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
• Romanian: castrație (ro) f, castrare (ro) 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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kas.tʁa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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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.