testosterone

testosterone

See also: testostérone

English

Etymology

From test(is) +‎ -o- +‎ -sterone (“steroid hormone”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɛˈstɒ.stə.ɹəʊn/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɛˈstɑ.stəˌɹoʊn/

Noun

testosterone (countable and uncountable, plural testosterones)

1. (biochemistry, steroids) A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex.
   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 168:

     Mammalian testes contain almost no testosterone because it is sent out into the body as quickly as it is made.

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.

Derived terms

• dihydroxytestosterone
• -ster- (androgen/anabolic steroid)

Translations

steroid hormone

Afrikaans: testosteroon Arabic: تِسْتُوسْتِيرُون‎ (ar) m (tistustirūn) Armenian: տեստոստերոն (hy) (testosteron) Belarusian: тэстастэро́н m (testasterón) Catalan: testosterona (ca) 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, karlhormón n Indonesian: testosteron (id) Italian: testosterone (it) m Japanese: テストステロン (tesutosuteron) Khmer: តេស្តូស្តេរ៉ូន (teestousteeroun) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: testosteron (ku) 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)

References

• “testosterone”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “testosterone”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

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Italian

Noun

testosterone m (plural testosteroni)

1. (biochemistry, steroids) testosterone