scrotum
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
scrotum (plural scrotums or scrota)
- (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
Derived terms
Translations
the bag of the skin and muscle that contains the testicles
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French
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin scrōtum.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
scrotum m (plural scrotums)
Further reading
- “scrotum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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 (kʻerem, “to scrape, scratch”).
More often used in Late Latin.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈskroː.tum/, [ˈs̠kroːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈskro.tum/, [ˈskrɔːt̪um]
Noun
scrōtum n (genitive scrōtī); second declension
- (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.
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