scrotal

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊtəl

Adjective

scrotal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the scrotum.
2. (zoology) With a visible scrotum.
   • 2008, Melissa A. Hillegass et al., “The influence of sex and sociality on parasite loads in an African ground squirrel”, in Behavioral Ecology, volume 19, number 5, →DOI, pages 1006–1011:

     Male maturity is evident from descent of the testes; adult males are scrotal year-round, whereas subadult males are partially or nonscrotal.

Derived terms

• abdominoscrotal
• ascrotal
• intrascrotal
• nonscrotal
• perineoscrotal

 

Translations

scrotal

• Catalan: escrotal (ca)
• French: scrotal (fr)
• German: skrotal
• Italian: scrotale
• Portuguese: escrotal
• Romanian: scrotal (ro)
• Russian: скротальный (ru) (skrotalʹnyj), мошо́ночный (ru) (mošónočnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: skròtālan (sh), скро̀та̄лан
• Slovene: skrotálen
• Spanish: escrotal
• Urdu: صفنی

Anagrams

• car lots, carlots, rasclot, slot car, slot-car, slotcar

French

Etymology

From scrotum +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skʁɔ.tal/

• Audio

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Adjective

scrotal (feminine scrotale, masculine plural scrotaux, feminine plural scrotales)

1. scrotal
   • 1841, Bulletin de l'Académie royale de médecine de Belgique, page 870:

     Dans la cure des hypospadias péno-scrotaux, scrotaux et périnéaux, il convient donc de recourir à d’autres opérations.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• scrotum

Further reading

• “scrotal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French scrotal, equivalent to scrot +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [skroˈtal]

Adjective

scrotal m or n (feminine singular scrotală, masculine plural scrotali, feminine and neuter plural scrotale)

1. scrotal

Declension

Declension of scrotal

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	scrotal		scrotală	scrotali	scrotale
	definite	scrotalul		scrotala	scrotalii	scrotalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	scrotal		scrotale	scrotali	scrotale
	definite	scrotalului		scrotalei	scrotalelor	scrotalilor

Related terms

• scrot

Further reading

• scrotal in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)