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 slang)
• 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 (ônḑôkosh), অণ্ডকোষ (ônḑôkosh)
• 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
• 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 (ãṇḍakoṣ)
• 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)
• 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: صُفَن‎
• 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 le 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.tũ]

Noun

scrōtum n (genitive scrōtī); second declension

1. (anatomy) scrotum

   Scrotum est membrum gignendi hominis et animalis in formam sacci, quod testes continet et protegit.

Inflection

Second declension.

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