εὐνουχίζω

English (LSJ)

   A castrate, τινα Ev.Matt.19.12 (Act. and Pass.), Luc.Sat. 12, etc.; γυναῖκας Xanth.19: metaph., γῆν Philostr.V A6.42; φάρμακον Archig. ap.Orib.8.2.8:—Pass., Gal.4.570, D.C.68.2.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1084] zum Verschnittenen machen, entmannen, Luc. Cronos. 12. – Pass., D. Csss. 68, 2; auch γυναῖκας, Ath. XII, 515 c.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

εὐνουχίζω: ὡς καὶ νῡν, ἀποτέμνω τὰ γεννητικὰ μόριά τινος, καθιστῶ αὐτὸν εὐνοῦχον, τοὺς δὲ πλουσίους μὴ εὐνουχίζων Λουκ. Κρονοσόλων 12˙ εὐν. ἑαυτὸν τῆς ἐπιθυμίας Κλήμ. Ἀλ. 538: - Παθ., Δίων Κ. 68. 2: - ῥηματ. ἐπίθ., εὐνουχιστέον τοὺς μόσχους Γεωπ. 17. 8, 2.

French (Bailly abrégé)

rendre eunuque, châtrer, mutiler.
Étymologie: εὐνοῦχος.

English (Strong)

from εὐνοῦχος; to castrate (figuratively, live unmarried): make…eunuch.

English (Thayer)

1st aorist ἐυνουχισα; 1st aorist passive ἐυνουχίσθην; (on the augment cf. Buttmann, 34 (30); WH s Appendix, p. 162); to castrate, unman: passive ὑπό τίνος, ἐυνουχίζειν ἑαυτόν, to make oneself a eunuch, viz. by abstaining (like a eunuch) from marriage, Josephus, Antiquities 10,2, 2; Lucian, Dio Cassius, others.)