domestication
English
noun
Definitions
- The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.
- The act of domesticating, or making a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
- (translation studies) The act of domesticating a text.
Etymology
Suffix from English domesticate.
Origin
English
domesticate
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dedomestication English
- domestic English
- domesticatable English
- domesticate English
- domesticated English
- domesticator English
- geodomestication English
- overdomesticate English
- overdomestication English
- peridomestication English
- postdomestication English
- predomestication English
- semidomestication English
- undomesticate English
- undomestication English
- *dem- Proto-Indo-European