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 (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 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.