fellatio
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin fellātiō, from fellātus, perfect participle of fellō (“I suck, I fellate”). The word started to appear in medical literature in the 19th century but it was still treated as Latin. In 1919 the California Supreme Court struck down a law criminalizing "fellatio" because the state constitution required laws to be written in English. By the late 20th century fellatio was treated as an English word.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fəˈleɪ.ʃi.əʊ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fəˈleɪ.ʃi.oʊ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃiəʊ
Noun
[edit]fellatio (usually uncountable, plural fellatios)
- The stimulation of the penis using the mouth.
- Synonyms: blowjob, cocksucking, French, gobby, hummer, head, nosh, penilingus; see also Thesaurus:oral sex
- Coordinate term: cunnilingus
- 1897, Havelock Ellis, Das Konträre Geschlechtsgefühl [Sexual Inversion] (in German):
- In 7 oder 8 anderen Fällen ging die geschlechtliche Beziehung selten über enge Berührung oder gegenseitige Masturbation hinaus. In 2 oder 3 anderen Fällen ist fellatio die bevorzugte Methode.
- In eight or nine [sic] cases the sexual relationship rarely goes beyond close physical contact, or at most mutual masturbation. In two or three cases fellatio is the form preferred.
- [1919 January 9, Supreme Court of California, In re Lockett, 57 Cal. Dec. 96:
- That the word "fellatio" has not become Anglicized is so clearly apparent that further comment seems unnecessary. […] Section 288a of the Penal Code is void for uncertainty as well as for the reason that it is not expressed in the English language.]
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]- This translation table is meant for standard terms only. For informal, colloquial and vulgar terms, see the translation table at blowjob.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin fellātiōnem, from fellātus, perfect participle of fellō (“to suck, to fellate”).
Noun
[edit]fellatio f (invariable)
- oral sex in which the penis of one of the participants is orally stimulated
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]fellō (“to suck”) + -tiō (action-noun suffix)
Pronunciation
[edit](Classical Latin) IPA(key): /feːlˈlaː.ti.oː/, [feːlˈlʲäːt̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /felˈlat.t͡si.o/, [felˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]
Noun
[edit]fēllātiō f (genitive fēllātiōnis); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fēllātiō | fēllātiōnēs |
Genitive | fēllātiōnis | fēllātiōnum |
Dative | fēllātiōnī | fēllātiōnibus |
Accusative | fēllātiōnem | fēllātiōnēs |
Ablative | fēllātiōne | fēllātiōnibus |
Vocative | fēllātiō | fēllātiōnēs |
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: fel·lació
- → Czech: felace
- → English: fellatio, fellation
- → Finnish: fellaatio
- → French: fellation
- → Romanian: felație
- → Galician: felación
- → German: Fellatio
- Italian: → fellatio, fellazione
- → Japanese: フェラチオ (ferachio)
- → Lithuanian: felacija
- → Macedonian: фелацио (felacio)
- → Portuguese: felação
- → Russian: фелляция (felljacija)
- → Serbo-Croatian: felacija, фелација
- → Spanish: felación
- → Swedish: fellatio
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]fellatio
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[edit]References
[edit]- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁(y)-
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English learned borrowings from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪʃiəʊ
- Rhymes:English/eɪʃiəʊ/3 syllables
- English lemmas
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- English uncountable nouns
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- English terms with quotations
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- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
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- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Sex
- Latin terms suffixed with -tio
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- la:Sex
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- sv:Sex
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