ejaculatio praecox

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English

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Etymology

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Modern Latin, from noun type formed from participle stem of Latin ējaculāri (to eject) + praecox (early).

Noun

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ejaculatio praecox (uncountable)

  1. Premature ejaculation.
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 607:
      This can be done psychoanalytically, as for example in the suggestion that salt is a symbol of semen and that the objection to spilling it reflects an unconscious fear of ejaculatio praecox.