scrotum

Borrowed from Latin scrōtum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɹəʊtəm/

scrotum (plural scrotums or scrota)

1. (anatomy) The bag of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in mammals.

   The female labia majora are homologous to the male scrotum.

• ballbag, ballsack (both slang)
• See also Thesaurus:scrotum

• genitals

• scrotal

Unadapted borrowing from Latin scrōtum.

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scrotum m (plural scrotums)

1. scrotum

• “scrotum” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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”).

More often used in Late Latin.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskroː.tum/, [ˈskroː.tũ]

scrōtum n (genitive scrōtī); second declension

1. (anatomy) scrotum

   Scrotum est membrum gignendi hominis et animalis in formam sacci, quod testes continet et protegit.

Second declension.

• → Albanian: skrotum
• → Aragonese: escroto
• → Asturian: escrotu
• → Catalan: escrot
• → Galician: escroto
• → Danish: skrotum
• → Dutch: scrotum
• → English: scrotum
• → French: scrotum
• → German: Skrotum
• → Italian: scroto
• → Norwegian: skrotum
• → Portuguese: escroto
• → Romanian: scrot
• → Spanish: escroto
  • → Tagalog: eskroto
• → Slovak: skrótum
• → Slovene: skrotum
• → Swedish: scrotum, skrotum
• → Turkish: skrotum
• → Welsh: sgrotwm

• 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