Meaning

verb adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

verb overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable

verb make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans

originFirst attested in 1620; either borrowed from Middle French domestiquer (Modern French domestiquer) or directly from Medieval Latin domesticātus, perfect passive participle of domesticō (“to domesticate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, domestic + -ate.

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