testicle
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin testiculus, diminutive of testis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]testicle (plural testicles)
- A testis: the male sex and endocrine gland, found in most types of animals, that produces sperm and male sex hormones, including the steroid testosterone.
- 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 232:
- In France, Mme. de Pompadour was induced by Louis XV to eat such testicles in order to break down her frigidity.
- 2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, page 372:
- Despite your jogging and the hairiness of your legs, the shoe of aging is beginning to pinch. Soon you'll regret all that sun-tanning. Your face will look like a testicle.
- (more commonly) Either half of the structure that contains the testes: one side of the scrotum and its contents, considered as one object (one half of the ballsack, including its ball).
Synonyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]
| ||||||||||||||
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin testiculus, diminutive of testis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [təsˈti.klə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [tesˈti.kle]
Audio (Barcelona): (file)
Noun
[edit]testicle m (plural testicles)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “testicle”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “testicle”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “testicle” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “testicle” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Genitalia
- Catalan terms borrowed from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan terms with audio pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns
- ca:Genitalia
- ca:Anatomy
