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)”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /prae̯ˈpuː.ti.um/, [präe̯ˈpuːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /preˈput.t͡si.um/, [preˈput̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

praepūtium n (genitive praepūtiī or praepūtī); second declension

1. (anatomy) Prepuce, foreskin

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	praepūtium	praepūtia
genitive	praepūtiī praepūtī1	praepūtiōrum
dative	praepūtiō	praepūtiīs
accusative	praepūtium	praepūtia
ablative	praepūtiō	praepūtiīs
vocative	praepūtium	praepūtia

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

Descendants

• Italic:

  Catalan: prepuci

  French: prépuce

  Italian: prepuzio

  Portuguese: prepúcio

  Romanian: prepuț

  Spanish: prepucio

• Germanic:

  English: prepuce

  German: Präputium

• Slavic:

  Bulgarian: препуциум (prepucium)

  Serbo-Croatian: prepucij

References

• “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.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “prepuce”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.