castrar

Borrowed from Latin castrāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəsˈtɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kasˈtɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

castrar (first-person singular present castro, first-person singular preterite castrí, past participle castrat)

1. to castrate

   Synonym: emascular

• castració

• “castrar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin castrāre. Cf. also the doublet crestar.

• Hyphenation: cas‧trar

castrar (first-person singular present castro, first-person singular preterite castrei, past participle castrado)

1. to castrate

   Synonym: capar

From Latin castrāre. It is uncertain whether or not the word was inherited in Spanish; compare the synonym capar, which was more popularly used.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kasˈtɾaɾ/ [kasˈt̪ɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cas‧trar

castrar (first-person singular present castro, first-person singular preterite castré, past participle castrado)

1. to castrate, to geld
2. (figurative) to weaken, neuter; to make less forceful.

• capar
• esterilizar

• “castrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

From Latin castrāre, present active infinitive of castrō (compare Italian castrare).

castrar

1. (transitive) to castrate

• Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.