scrotum的词源

英文词源

scrotum (n.)

"purse-like tegumentary investment of the testes and part of the spermatic cord; the cod" [Century Dictionary], 1590s, from Latin scrotum, probably transposed from scortum "a skin, hide" (see corium), perhaps by influence of scrautum "leather quiver for arrows."

"Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotum-tightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton." [Joyce, "Ulysses"]

Related: Scrotal.

中文词源

scrotum：阴囊

来自拉丁语 scrotum,阴囊，可能来自 scortum,皮肤，来自 PIE*sker,砍，切，分开，词源同 shear,corium,excoriate.

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