scrotum
English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin scrōtum.
Pronunciation
- enPR: skrōʹtəm
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈskɹəʊ.təm/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈskɹoʊ.təm/
- Rhymes: (UK) -əʊtəm, (US) -oʊtəm
Noun
scrotum (plural scrotums or scrota)
- (anatomy) The sac of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in most mammals.
- The female labia majora are homologous to the male scrotum.
Synonyms
- ballbag, ballsack (both vulgar)
- See also Thesaurus:scrotum
Hypernyms
- genitals
Derived terms
- scrotal
Translations
the bag of the skin and muscle that contains the testicles
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Dutch
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin scrōtum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskroː.tʏm/
- Hyphenation: scro‧tum
- Rhymes: -oːtʏm
Noun
scrotum n (plural scrota or scrotums)
- (anatomy, medicine) scrotum
- Synonym: balzak
French
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin scrōtum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skʁɔ.tɔm/, /skʁo.tɔm/
Audio (file)
Noun
scrotum m (plural scrotums)
- scrotum
- Le scrotum est un sac de peau et de tissu fibromusculaire situé à la racine du pénis qui soutient les testicules et les maintient à une température stable.
- The scrotum is a sack of skin and fibromuscular tissue at the base of the penis that supports the testicles and keeps them at a stable temperature.
Derived terms
- scrotal
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 (kʿerem, “to scrape, scratch”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskroː.tum/, [ˈs̠kroːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈskro.tum/, [ˈskrɔːt̪um]
Noun
scrōtum n (genitive scrōtī); second declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin, New Latin)
- (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
- → Macedonian: скротум (skrotum)
- → Norwegian: skrotum
- → Portuguese: escroto
- → Romanian: scrot
- → Sicilian: scrotu
- → 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, page 1407
- scrotum in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, volume 2, 8th edition, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2547