testosterone

See also: testostérone

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛsˈtɒstəˌɹəʊn/
• IPA^(key): /tɛsˈtɒstəˌɹoʊn/

Noun

testosterone (countable and uncountable, plural testosterones)

1. (biochemistry, steroids) Steroid hormone produced primarily in the testes of the male; it is responsible for the development of secondary sex characteristics in the male.
2. (figuratively) Manly behavior, often of an aggressive or foolishly reckless nature.

   Mother encouraged James to rely more on intelligence and less on testosterone to deal with the neighbor's son.

Translations

steroid hormone

• Afrikaans: testosteroon
• Arabic: تِسْتُوسْتِيرُون m (tistustirūn)
• Armenian: տեստոստերոն (hy) (testosteron)
• Belarusian: тэстастэро́н m (testasterón)
• Catalan: testosterona f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 睾酮 (gou¹ tung⁴)

  Mandarin: 睾酮 (zh) (gāotóng)

• Chuvash: тестостерон (testosteron)
• Czech: testosteron m
• Danish: testosteron (da) n
• Dutch: testosteron (nl) m
• Esperanto: testosterono
• Finnish: testosteroni (fi)
• French: testostérone (fr) f
• German: Testosteron (de) n
• Hebrew: טסטוסטרון (he) m
• Icelandic: testósterón n
• Indonesian: testosteron (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: testosterone (it) m
• Japanese: テストステロン (tesutosuteron)
• Kurdish:
• Lithuanian: testosteronas m
• Maori: taiaki tāne
• Norwegian: testosteron n
• Persian: تستوسترون (testosteron)
• Polish: testosteron (pl) m
• Portuguese: testosterona (pt) f
• Romanian: testosteron (ro) m
• Russian: тестостеро́н (ru) m (testosterón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тестостѐро̄н m

  Roman: testostèrōn (sh) m

• Slovak: testosterón m
• Spanish: testosterona f
• Swedish: testosteron (sv) n
• Turkish: testosteron (tr)

Derived terms

• dihydroxytestosterone

---

Italian

Noun

testosterone m (plural testosteroni)

1. (biochemistry, steroids) testosterone