domesticated

English

domesticated red fox

Etymology

domesticate +‎ -ed

Verb

domesticated

simple past and past participle of domesticate

Adjective

domesticated (comparative more domesticated, superlative most domesticated)

selectively bred to live with or around humans. (of an animal or a plant, especially a pet)
- 1856, Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, Volume 4:
  But I can take the calves and learn them to work and give milk, and learn them to become domesticated and useful.

Antonyms

undomesticated

Derived terms

semi-domesticated

Translations

selectively bred to live with or around humans

Arabic: أَلِيف (ʔalīf)
Azerbaijani: əhli, əhliləşmiş
Catalan: domesticat m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 家養的／家养的 (jiāyǎng de), 馴化的／驯化的 (xùnhuà de), 馴養的／驯养的 (xùnyǎng de)
Estonian: kodustatud
Finnish: koti- (fi) (used of animals like horse, cat etc), kesy (fi), kesytetty (fi)
French: domestiqué (fr)
Galician: domesticado m
Greek: εξημερωμένος (el) m (eximeroménos)
Hungarian: háziasított (hu), domesztikált (hu)
Ido: domestika (io)
Malayalam: വളർത്ത് (vaḷaṟttŭ)
Mongolian: тэжээвэр (mn) (težeever)
Navajo: bílaʼashdlaʼii bi-
Polish: udomowiony
Portuguese: domesticado (pt)
Quechua: uywa (qu)
Russian: ручно́й (ru) (ručnój), приручённый (ru) (priručónnyj)
Spanish: amaestrado (es), adiestrado (es) m
Swedish: tam (sv), domesticerad (sv)
Tagalog: amak (tl)

See also

tame

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