scrotum
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
scrotum (plural scrotums or scrota)
- (anatomy) The bag of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in mammals.
- The female labia majora is homologous to the male scrotum.
Synonyms[edit]
- ballbag, ballsack
- See also Thesaurus:scrotum
Hypernyms[edit]
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Translations[edit]
the bag of the skin and muscle that contains the testicles
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
scrotum m (plural scrotums)
Further reading[edit]
- “scrotum” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). See also Latin scortum, 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[edit]
Noun[edit]
scrōtum n (genitive scrōtī); second declension
- (anatomy) scrotum
- Scrotum est membrum gignendi hominis et animalis in formam sacci, quod testes continet et protegit.
Inflection[edit]
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | scrōtum | scrōta |
genitive | scrōtī | scrōtōrum |
dative | scrōtō | scrōtīs |
accusative | scrōtum | scrōta |
ablative | scrōtō | scrōtīs |
vocative | scrōtum | scrōta |
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- 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
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