Etymology
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From Latin prōcreō.
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˌpɹəʊkɹiˈeɪt/
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procreate (third-person singular simple present procreates, present participle procreating, simple past and past participle procreated)
- (transitive) To beget or conceive (offspring).
- (transitive) To originate, create or produce something.
- (intransitive) To reproduce.
Translations
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to beget
- Catalan: procrear (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 生育 (zh) (shēngyù), 生殖 (zh) (shēngzhí), 產生／产生 (zh) (chǎnshēng)
- Dutch: verwekken (nl)
- Finnish: hedelmöittää (fi), siittää (fi)
- French: procréer (fr)
- Galician: procrear (gl), facer fillos
- German: zeugen (de), sich fortpflanzen (de), sich vermehren (de)
- Italian: generare (it), procreare (it)
- Japanese: 生む (ja) (うむ, umu), 生殖する (ja) (せいしょくする, seishoku suru)
- Latin: prōcreō
- Macedonian: ра́ѓа (ráǵa), со́здава по́томство (sózdava pótomstvo)
- Ngazidja Comorian: uzaya
- Romanian: procrea (ro)
- Russian: производи́ть пото́мство impf (proizvodítʹ potómstvo), произвести́ пото́мство pf (proizvestí potómstvo), порожда́ть (ru) impf (poroždátʹ), породи́ть (ru) pf (porodítʹ), рожа́ть (ru) impf (rožátʹ), рожда́ть (ru) impf (roždátʹ), роди́ть (ru) pf (rodítʹ), производи́ть на свет impf (proizvodítʹ na svet), произвести́ на свет pf (proizvestí na svet)
- Sanskrit: जनयति (sa) (janayati)
- Spanish: procrear (es), reproducirse (es)
- Swedish: föröka (sv) sig, fortplanta (sv) sig
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