gelding

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɛldɪŋ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛldɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English geldyng (“eunuch”), from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”). By surface analysis, geld (“to castrate”) +‎ -ing (diminutive suffix).

Noun

gelding (plural geldings)

  1. A castrated male horse.
    • 2003 January 8, Stuart Lavietes, “F. William Free, 74, Ad Man Behind 'Fly Me'”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
  2. Any castrated male animal.
Translations

Etymology 2

From geld +‎ -ing.

Verb

gelding

  1. present participle and gerund of geld

Anagrams

Icelandic

Etymology

From gelda (“to geld, to castrate”) +‎ -ing (“-ing”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈcɛltiŋk/
  • Rhymes: -ɛltiŋk

Noun

gelding f (genitive singular geldingar, nominative plural geldingar)

  1. castration, gelding

Declension
declension of gelding
f-s1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gelding geldingin geldingar geldingarnar
accusative geldingu geldinguna geldingar geldingarnar
dative geldingu geldingunni geldingum geldingunum
genitive geldingar geldingarinnar geldinga geldinganna
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