different between scrotum vs orchiopexy

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin scr?tum.

Pronunciation

• enPR: skr??t?m
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk???.t?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sk?o?.t?m/

Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Hypernyms

• genitals

Derived terms

• scrotal

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin scr?tum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skro?.t?m/
• Hyphenation: scro?tum
• Rhymes: -o?t?m

Noun

scrotum n (plural scrota or scrotums)

1. (anatomy, medicine) scrotum

   Synonym: balzak

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin scr?tum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??.t?m/, /sk?o.t?m/

Noun

scrotum m (plural scrotums)

1. scrotum

Derived terms

• scrotal

Further reading

• “scrotum” in 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, scrautum, corium, Proto-Germanic *skeran? (whence English shear), Ancient Greek ????? (keír?, “I cut off”), Albanian harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”), Old Armenian ????? (k?erem, “to scrape, scratch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?skro?.tum/, [?s?k?o?t????]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?skro?.tu/, [?skro?tu]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?skro.tum/, [?sk???t?um]

Noun

scr?tum n (genitive scr?t?); second declension (Late Latin, Medieval Latin, New Latin)

1. (anatomy) scrotum

   Scr?tum est membrum gignend? hominis et anim?lis in f?rmam sacc?, quod test?s continet et pr?tegit.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

• ? Albanian: skrotum
• ? Aragonese: escroto
• ? Asturian: escrotu
• ? Catalan: escrot
• ? Galician: escroto
• ? Danish: skrotum
• ? Dutch: scrotum
• ? English: scrotum
• ? French: scrotum
• ? German: Skrotum
• ? Italian: scroto
• ? Macedonian: ??????? (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 (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, page 2547

English

Alternative forms

• orchidopexy

Etymology

From Latin orchis + -pexy, from Ancient Greek ????? (órkhis, “testicle”) +? ????? (pêxis, “fixing”).

Noun

orchiopexy (plural orchiopexies)

1. (surgery) The procedure to move an undescended testicle into the scrotum.