scrotum
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈskɹəʊtəm/
Noun
scrotum (plural scrotums or scrota)
- (anatomy) The bag of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in mammals.
- The female labia majora are homologous to the male scrotum.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Translations
the bag of the skin and muscle that contains the testicles
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French
Etymology
Noun
scrotum m (plural scrotums)
Further reading
- “scrotum” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). See also Latin scortum, 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/, [ˈskroː.tũ]
Noun
scrōtum n (genitive scrōtī); second declension
- (anatomy) scrotum
- Scrotum est membrum gignendi hominis et animalis in formam sacci, quod testes continet et protegit.
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | scrōtum | scrōta |
| genitive | scrōtī | scrōtōrum |
| dative | scrōtō | scrōtīs |
| accusative | scrōtum | scrōta |
| ablative | scrōtō | scrōtīs |
| vocative | scrōtum | scrōta |
Descendants
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
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