castrateur
French, noun/kas.tʁa.tœʁ/
castrateur is spelled C-A-S-T-R-A-T-E-U-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 173,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Castrateur is a French masculine noun meaning “castrator” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Celui qui va déclencher le complexe de castration”.
What does castrateur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecastrator
adjective
- 1
emasculating, disempowering
une idéologie castratrice
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui castre, qui châtre. 2. Qui va engendrer un complexe de castration. 3. Qualifie une personne trop autoritaire soumettant une autre personne à sa volonté.
noun: 1. Celui qui va déclencher le complexe de castration. 2. Celui est qui trop autoritaire et qui soumet une autre personne à sa volonté.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of castrateur
- castrateurs plural
- castratrice feminine
- castratrices feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce castrateur?
- /kas.tʁa.tœʁ/
- \kas.tʁa.tœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is castrateur in French?
castrateur appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).