scrotum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scrōtum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɹəʊtəm/

Noun

scrotum (plural scrotums or scrota)

1. (anatomy) The bag of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in mammals.

   The female labia majora are homologous to the male scrotum.

Synonyms

• ballbag, ballsack (both vulgar)
• See also Thesaurus:scrotum

Hypernyms

• genitals

Derived terms

• scrotal

Translations

the bag of the skin and muscle that contains the testicles

• Albanian: qese e herdheve f
• Arabic: صَفَن‎ m (ṣafan), كِيس اَلصَّفَن‎ m (kīs aṣ-ṣafan), كِيس‎ (ar) m (kīs)

  Egyptian Arabic: صفن‎ m (ṣafan)

• Aragonese: escroto m
• Armenian: ամորձապարկ (amorjapark), փոշտ (hy) (pʿošt), (slang, vulgar) պլոր (hy) (plor)
• Asturian: escrotu (ast) m
• Bashkir: тоҡсай (toqsay)
• Belarusian: машо́нка f (mašónka)
• Bengali: অন্ডকোষ (ônḍkoṣ), অণ্ডকোষ (ôṇḍkoṣ)
• Catalan: escrot m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 春袋 (ceon¹ doi⁶), 陰囊, 阴囊 (jam¹ nong⁴)

  Mandarin: 陰囊 (zh), 阴囊 (zh) (yīnnáng)

  Min Nan: 陰囊, 阴囊 (im^-lông), 膦脬, 膦胞 (lān^-pha), 胞囊 (phau^-lông)

• Czech: šourek (cs) m
• Danish: skrotum (clinic), pung (da) c, bollerne c pl (slang)
• Dutch: scrotum (nl) n, balzak (nl) m
• Esperanto: skroto, testikujo
• Estonian: munandikott
• Faroese: skólpur m, pungur m
• Finnish: kivespussi (fi)
• French: scrotum (fr) m
• Galician: escroto (gl) m
• German: Skrotum (de) n, Hodensack (de) m
• Greek: όσχεο (el) (óscheo)

  Ancient: ὄσχη f (óskhē)

• Gujarati: અંડકોશ (aṇḍakoś)
• Hebrew: כיס האשכים‎, שַׂק הָאֲשָׁכִים‎ m (sak ha-ashakhim)
• Hindi: अंडकोष (hi) m (aṇḍkoṣ)
• Hungarian: herezacskó (hu)
• Icelandic: pungur (is) m
• Ido: skroto (io)
• Indonesian: kantong pelir, skrotum (id)
• Irish: bosán m, cadairne m, cochall m (of animal)
• Italian: scroto (it)
• Japanese: 陰嚢 (いんのう, innō)
• Javanese: konthol (jv)
• Kannada: ಅಂಡಾಶಯ (kn) (aṇḍāśaya)
• Kazakh: ұма (uma)
• Khmer: ក្រសោមស្វាស (krɑsaom svaah), ប្លោក (km) (plaok)
• Korean: 불 (ko) (bul), 음낭 (ko) (eumnang) (陰囊 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گوندێن‎ (gundên)

• Latin: scrōtum n
• Latvian: sēklinieku maisiņš m
• Lithuanian: kapšelis m, sėklidžių kapšelis m
• Low German: Klötensack, Skrotum
• Malay: kantung buah zakar, kerandut buah pelir, skrotum, kerandut buah zakar
• Malayalam: വൃഷണസഞ്ചി (vr̥ṣaṇasañci)
• Maori: pūkoro raho
• Marathi: वृषण (vruṣaṇ)
• Navajo: achoʼ, achoʼ bizis, achoʼayęęzhii bizis, ayęęzhii bizis
• Northern Sami: buđˈđá, bálˈloseahkka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pung m, skrotum

  Nynorsk: pung m, skrotum

• Persian: پوست بیضه‎ (pust-e beyze), کیسه بیضه‎ (kise-ye beyze), کیسه خایه‎ (kise-ye xâye)
• Polish: moszna (pl) f, worek mosznowy m
• Portuguese: escroto (pt) m
• Romanian: scrot (ro) n
• Russian: мошо́нка (ru) f (mošónka)
• Sanskrit: अण्डकोष (sa) (aṇḍakoṣa)
• Serbo-Croatian: mòšnja (sh) f, mȍšnice (sh) f pl, mȍšnička f
• Slovak: miešok (sk) m, skrótum n, (slang, vulgar) gule f pl, (slang, vulgar) vajcia n pl
• Slovene: modnik m, mošnja f, skrotum m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: měch m

• Spanish: escroto (es) m
• Sundanese: ᮊᮔ᮪ᮏᮥᮒ᮪ (kanjut)
• Swahili: korodani
• Swedish: pung (sv) c, scrotum (sv), skrotum (sv)
• Tagalog: balat-bayag, eskroto, kasuputan
• Tamil: விதைப்பை (ta) (vitaippai)
• Telugu: వృషణం (te) (vr̥ṣaṇaṃ), అండకోశము (te) (aṇḍakōśamu), బీజావయవము (bījāvayavamu)
• Thai: ถุงอัณฑะ
• Turkish: skrotum (tr)
• Ukrainian: мошо́нка f (mošónka), кали́тка f (kalýtka)
• Urdu: صفن‎ (sufan)
• Vietnamese: bìu dái (vi)
• Volapük: skrot
• Welsh: ceillgwd m, sgrotwm m, cwdyn (cy) m (colloquial), cwd m (colloquial)
• Westrobothnian: tjöll f
• Yucatec Maya: chiim
• ǃXóõ: ǂqhàn-tê

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French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin scrōtum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

scrotum m (plural scrotums)

1. scrotum

Further reading

• “scrotum” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). See also Latin scortum, scrautum, corium, Proto-Germanic *skeraną (whence English shear), Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), Albanian harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”), Old Armenian քերեմ (kʿerem, “to scrape, scratch”).

More often used in Late Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskroː.tum/, [ˈskroː.t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskro.tum/, [ˈskrɔː.t̪um]

Noun

scrōtum n (genitive scrōtī); second declension

1. (anatomy) scrotum

   Scrōtum est membrum gignendī hominis et animālis in fōrmam saccī, quod testēs continet et prōtegit.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scrōtum	scrōta
Genitive	scrōtī	scrōtōrum
Dative	scrōtō	scrōtīs
Accusative	scrōtum	scrōta
Ablative	scrōtō	scrōtīs
Vocative	scrōtum	scrōta

Descendants

• → Albanian: skrotum
• → Aragonese: escroto
• → Asturian: escrotu
• → Catalan: escrot
• → Galician: escroto
• → Danish: skrotum
• → Dutch: scrotum
• → English: scrotum
• → French: scrotum
• → German: Skrotum
• → Italian: scroto
• → Norwegian: skrotum
• → Portuguese: escroto
• → Romanian: scrot
• → Spanish: escroto
  • → Tagalog: eskroto
• → Slovak: skrótum
• → Slovene: skrotum
• → Swedish: scrotum, skrotum
• → Turkish: skrotum
• → Welsh: sgrotwm

References

• scrotum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scrotum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette