praeputium

See also: præputium

Latin

Etymology

From a combination of prae- (“before”) +‎ Old Latin pūtos (“penis”), potentially from Proto-Indo-European *pew- (“to blow (up)”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /prae̯ˈpuː.ti.um/, [prae̯ˈpuː.ti.ũ]

Noun

praepūtium n (genitive praepūtiī or praepūtī); second declension

  1. (anatomy) prepuce, foreskin

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative praeputium praeputia
Genitive praeputiī
praeputī1		 praeputiōrum
Dative praeputiō praeputiīs
Accusative praeputium praeputia
Ablative praeputiō praeputiīs
Vocative praeputium praeputia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959), “pu-t-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume III, 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
  • “prepuce” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
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