gelding
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - 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)
- 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.
- Any castrated male animal.
Translations
castrated male horse
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castrated male animal
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Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈcɛltiŋk/
- Rhymes: -ɛltiŋk
Declension
declension of gelding
f-s1 | singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | gelding | geldingin | geldingar | geldingarnar |
accusative | geldingu | geldinguna | geldingar | geldingarnar |
dative | geldingu | geldingunni | geldingum | geldingunum |
genitive | geldingar | geldingarinnar | geldinga | geldinganna |
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