domesticar
Spanish, verb/domestiˈkaɾ/
domesticar is a Spanish verb meaning “to domesticate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acostumbrar a un ser salvaje a la compañía humana”.
What does domesticar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to domesticate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Acostumbrar a un ser salvaje a la compañía humana. 2. Hacer tratable a una persona que no lo es, atemperar la rudeza de carácter.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of domesticar
- domestico first-person present singular
- domestiqué first-person preterite singular
- domesticado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- domesticando gerund
- domesticada feminine participle past
- domesticados masculine participle past
- domesticadas feminine participle past
- domesticas indicative informal present
- domesticás indicative informal present
- domestica indicative present singular
- domesticamos first-person indicative plural
- domesticáis indicative plural present
- domestican indicative plural present
- domesticaba first-person imperfect indicative
- domesticabas imperfect indicative second-person
- domesticábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- domesticabais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce domesticar?
- /domestiˈkaɾ/
- [d̪o.mes.t̪iˈkaɾ]
- [d̪omest̪iˈkaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to domesticar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is domesticar in Spanish?
domesticar appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).