# scrotum
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin scrōtum.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈskɹəʊ.təm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈskɹoʊ.təm/
* Rhymes: -əʊtəm

### Noun

scrotum (plural scrotums or scrota)
* (anatomy) The sac of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in most placental (boreoeutherian) mammals.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:scrotum
    The female labia majora are homologous to the male scrotum.

#### Hypernyms

* external genitalia
* labioscrotal swellings - embryological precursor

#### Derived terms

* scro
* scrote
* scrotumed
* scrotum frog

#### Related terms

* scrotal

#### Translations
## Dutch
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin scrōtum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈskroː.tʏm/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: scro‧tum
* Rhymes: -oːtʏm

### Noun

scrotum n (plural scrota or scrotums)
* (anatomy, medicine) scrotum
    Synonym: balzak

## French
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin scrōtum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

Not attested classically. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker(H)- (“to cut”) with an unexplained extension and the suffix *-tóm. See 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 (kʻerem, “to scrape, scratch”). It may derive from an intermediate sense “piece of skin, leather, hide” as in scortum and other cognates, or “bag”; compare the semantic development of Welsh cwd (“pouch, bag, purse; scrotum”) from Latin cutis (“skin”). The formal details are uncertain: perhaps modified from earlier *scorotum, from Proto-Italic *skoratom, from Proto-Indo-European *skr̥H-to-m, but perhaps more likely a borrowing from an unknown source.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈskroː.tum/, [ˈs̠kroːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /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.The scrotum is a human and animal body part for procreation in the form of a sack, which contains and protects the testes.

#### 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: 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, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2547