evirate

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English

Etymology

From Latin ēvirātus, perfect passive participle of ēvirō (“I emasculate”), from ē (“out of”) + vir (“man”).

Pronunciation

Verb

evirate (third-person singular simple present evirates, present participle evirating, simple past and past participle evirated)

  1. To castrate.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:
      Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.
    • 1846, Walter Savage Landor, edited by J. Forster, The works of Walter Savage Landor:
      The pope offered a hundred marks in Latin to who should eviscerate or evirate him (poisons very potent, whereat the Italians are handy), so apostolic and desperate a doctor is Dr. Glaston, — so acute in his quiddities, and so resolute in his bearing!
  2. To render weak or unmanly.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

evirate

  1. inflection of evirare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

evirate f pl

  1. feminine plural of evirato

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

ēvirāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of ēvirō
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