testis

Learned borrowing from Latin testis.

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testis (plural testes)

1. (anatomy) A testicle of a vertebrate.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 14:

     In the Middle Ages, for instance, a recipe for sex stimulation required the putrefied flesh of a human corpse, together with both human and animal testes and ovaries, pimento, and alcohol.

2. (biology) An analogous gland in invertebrates such as the hydra.

• undescended testis

For *terstis, from Proto-Italic *tristos, from Proto-Indo-European *tristh₂s ("a third party standing", after the two parties to a contract or dispute), from *tréyes (“three”) and *steh₂- (“to stand”). Compare Oscan trstus (“witnesses”, nominative plural).^[1][2][3][4]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛs.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ɛs.t̪is]

testis m or f (genitive testis); third declension

2. witness

   Synonyms: arbiter, auctor

3. one who testifies or attests

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• testor

• → Italian: teste (learned)
• → Proto-Brythonic: *tɨst
  • Middle Welsh: tyst
    • Welsh: tyst
• → Old Irish: testas
  • Irish: teist
  • Scottish Gaelic: teist

Of disputed origin. Perhaps either:

• From some particular use of testis (“witness”), as in "bearing witness to the sex act",^[5] or
• Related to testa (“pot, shell”).^[6]

testis m (genitive testis); third declension

2. testicle
   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 1426:

     Si posthac prehendero ego te hīc, carebis testibus.

     If, after this time, I catch you here again, you will be missing your testicles.

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• testiculus

• → English: testis (learned)
• → Indonesian: testis (learned)
• → Italian: teste (learned)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (learned)

  Cyrillic script: тестис

  Latin script: tȅstis

• → Turkish: testis (learned)

• “testis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “testis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "testis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• testis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an important witness: testis gravis
    
  • a witness worthy of all credit: testis locuples
    
  • an impartial witness: testis incorruptus atque integer
    
  • to cite a person to give evidence on a matter: aliquem testem alicuius rei (in aliquid) citare
    
  • to use some one's evidence: aliquem testem adhibere
    
  • to use some one's evidence: aliquo teste uti
    
  • to produce as a witness: aliquem testem dare, edere, proferre
    
  • to produce as a witness: aliquem testem producere
    
  • to appear as witness against a person: testem prodire (in aliquem)
    
  • to be convicted by some one's evidence: testibus teneri, convictum esse
    
  • this shows, proves..: testis est, testatur, declarat
    
• “testis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “testis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Learned borrowing from Latin testis.

• IPA^(key): /têstis/
• Hyphenation: te‧stis

tȅstis m inan (Cyrillic spelling те̏стис)

1. (anatomy) testicle

Learned borrowing from Latin testis.

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testis (definite accusative testisi, plural testisler)

1. testicle

   Synonym: er bezi

• taşak (vulgar)