praeputium
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See also: præputium
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a combination of prae- (“before”) + Old Latin pūtos (“penis”), potentially from Proto-Indo-European *pew- (“to blow (up)”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /prae̯ˈpuː.ti.um/, [präe̯ˈpuːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /preˈput.t͡si.um/, [preˈput̪ː͡s̪ium]
Noun
[edit]praepūtium n (genitive praepūtiī or praepūtī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | praepūtium | praepūtia |
genitive | praepūtiī praepūtī1 |
praepūtiōrum |
dative | praepūtiō | praepūtiīs |
accusative | praepūtium | praepūtia |
ablative | praepūtiō | praepūtiīs |
vocative | praepūtium | praepūtia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “pu-t-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 848
- “praeputium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “praeputium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- praeputium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “prepuce”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.