scrotum

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin scrōtum.

Pronunciation

• enPR: skrōʹtəm
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹəʊ.təm/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹoʊ.təm/

Noun

scrotum (plural scrotums or scrota)

1. (anatomy) The sac of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in most 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
• Azerbaijani: xayalıq, xaya torbası
• Bashkir: тоҡсай (toqsay)
• Belarusian: машо́нка f (mašónka)
• Bengali: অন্ডকোষ (ônḍkoś), অণ্ডকোষ (bn) (ônḍkoś)
• Bulgarian: скротум m (skrotum)
• Catalan: escrot (ca) 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), 𡳞脬 (zh-min-nan), 𡳞胞 (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, (vulgar) munn (et)
• 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) m
• Japanese: 陰嚢 (ja) (いんのう, innō)
• Javanese: konthol (jv)
• Kannada: ಅಂಡಾಶಯ (kn) (aṇḍāśaya)
• Kazakh: ұма (ūma)
• Khmer: ក្រសោមស្វាស (krɑsaom svaah), ប្លោក (km) (plaok)
• Korean: 불 (ko) (bul), 음낭(陰囊) (ko) (eumnang)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: گوندێن‎ (gundên)

  Northern Kurdish: tûrikê gun m

• Latin: scrōtum n, (vulgar) culleus m
• Latvian: sēklinieku maisiņš m

• Lithuanian: kapšelis m, sėklidžių kapšelis m
• Low German: Klötensack, Skrotum
• Macedonian: скротум (skrotum)
• Malay: kantung buah zakar, kerandut buah pelir, skrotum, kerandut buah zakar
• Malayalam: വൃഷണസഞ്ചി (vr̥ṣaṇasañci)
• Manchu: ᡠᡥᠠᠯᠠ (uhala)
• Maori: pūkoro raho
• Marathi: वृषण (vruṣaṇ)
• Navajo: achoʼ, achoʼ bizis, achoʼayęęzhii bizis, ayęęzhii bizis
• 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)
• Plautdietsch: Hoodensak m
• Polish: moszna (pl) f, worek mosznowy m
• Portuguese: escroto (pt) m
• Romanian: scrot (ro) n
• Russian: мошо́нка (ru) f (mošónka)
• Saaroa: 'aricuru
• Sami:

  Inari: kuolâpursâ

  Northern: buđˈđá, bálˈloseahkka

  Skolt: kuõllsiâkk

• Sanskrit: अण्डकोष (sa) (aṇḍakoṣa)
• Serbo-Croatian: mòšnja (sh) f, mȍšnice (sh) f pl, mȍšnička f
• Sicilian: scrotu m
• 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) (vr̥ṣaṇaṁ), అండకోశము (te) (aṇḍakōśamu), బీజావయవము (bījāvayavamu)
• Thai: ถุงอัณฑะ
• Tongan: laho
• 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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Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin scrōtum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskroː.tʏm/
• Hyphenation: scro‧tum
• Rhymes: -oːtʏm

Noun

scrotum n (plural scrota or scrotums)

1. (anatomy, medicine) scrotum

   Synonym: balzak

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French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin scrōtum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skʁɔ.tɔm/, /skʁo.tɔm/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

scrotum m (plural scrotums)

1. scrotum

   Le scrotum est un sac de peau et de tissu fibromusculaire situé à la racine du pénis qui soutient les testicules et les maintient à une température stable.

   The scrotum is a sack of skin and fibromuscular tissue at the base of the penis that supports the testicles and keeps them at a stable temperature.

Derived terms

• scrotal

Further reading

• “scrotum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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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”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskroː.tum/, [ˈs̠kroːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskro.tum/, [ˈskrɔːt̪um]

Noun

scrōtum n (genitive scrōtī); second declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin, New Latin)

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
• → Macedonian: скротум (skrotum)
• → Norwegian: skrotum
• → Portuguese: escroto
• → Romanian: scrot
• → Sicilian: scrotu
• → 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, page 1407
• scrotum in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, page 2547