masturbor
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain origin. Traditionally suggested to be a compound of manus (“hand”) + turbare (“to unsettle, throw in to disorder”), or a deformed compound of manus (“hand”) + stuprāre (“to defile (the self)”), from stuprum, with influence from turbāre – though the first part could also be mās (“man”).
Watkins traces the root to a Proto-Indo-European *mostr̥g-, extended and metathesised from *mosgʰos (“marrow”), also found in Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬯𐬙𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬔𐬀𐬥 (mast(ə)rəg-an-, “brains”) and Tocharian B mrestīwe (“marrow”); the semantic development would parallel "the symbolic autofellatio of Finn [mac Cumaill]'s gnawing his thumb to the marrow".
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /masˈtur.bor/, [mäs̠ˈt̪ʊrbɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /masˈtur.bor/, [mäsˈt̪urbor]
Verb
masturbor (present infinitive masturbārī, perfect active masturbātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
Conjugation
Derived terms
References
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- “masturbor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- MASTURBARE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- masturbor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 953/2.
- masturbo in Ramminger, Johann (2024 July 11 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “masturbor” on page 1,082/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- de Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages
- The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed.