gelding

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛldɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English geldyng (eunuch), from Old Norse geldingr (wether, eunuch), from gelda (to castrate). By surface analysis, geld (to castrate) + -ing (diminutive suffix).

Noun

gelding (plural geldings)

  1. A castrated male horse.
    • 2003 January 8, Stuart Lavietes, “F. William Free, 74, Ad Man Behind 'Fly Me'”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
  2. Any castrated male animal.
Translations

Etymology 2

From geld + -ing.

Verb

gelding

  1. present participle and gerund of geld

Anagrams

Icelandic

Etymology

From gelda (to geld, to castrate) + -ing (-ing).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈcɛltiŋk/
  • Rhymes: -ɛltiŋk

Noun

gelding f (genitive singular geldingar, nominative plural geldingar)

  1. castration, gelding

Declension

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