testitrahus

Latin

Etymology

From testis (“testicle”) +‎ trahō (“drag”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tesˈti.tra.hus/, [t̪ɛs̠ˈt̪ɪt̪rä(ɦ)ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tesˈti.tra.us/, [t̪esˈt̪iːt̪räus]

Adjective

testitrahus (feminine testitraha, neuter testitrahum); first/second-declension adjective (hapax, humorous)

1. testicle-dragging
   • c. 160 CE – c. 225 CE, Tertullian, De Pallio 1.3:

     Equidem haud mīror prae documentō superiōre. Nam et ariētem (nōn quem Laberius reciprocicornem ait, lānicutem et testitrahum, sed trabēs māchina est quae mūrōs frangere mīlitat) nēminī unquam adhūc lībrātum illa dicitur Carthago, 'studiīs asperrima bellī', prīma omnium armāsse in oscillum pendulī impetūs, commentāta vim tormentī dēbile pecoris caput vindicantis.

     I'm not surprised at all on account of a previous example. For the ram too (not the one whom Laberius calls reciprocally-horned, wooly-skinned and testicle-dragging, but the siege weapon that smashes walls), not swung into anyone yet, Carthage, 'the toughest in the arts of war', is said to have first mobilised in the oscillation of violence, having realised the power of the engine by analogy of the anger of the beast that avenges itself with its head.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	testitrahus	testitraha	testitrahum		testitrahī	testitrahae	testitraha
Genitive	testitrahī	testitrahae	testitrahī		testitrahōrum	testitrahārum	testitrahōrum
Dative	testitrahō		testitrahō		testitrahīs
Accusative	testitrahum	testitraham	testitrahum		testitrahōs	testitrahās	testitraha
Ablative	testitrahō	testitrahā	testitrahō		testitrahīs
Vocative	testitrahe	testitraha	testitrahum		testitrahī	testitrahae	testitraha

References

• “testitrahus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• testitrahus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.