different between ovaries vs testis

English

Noun

ovaries

1. plural of ovary

Anagrams

• aversio

English

Noun

testis (plural testes)

1. (anatomy) A testicle of a vertebrate.
2. (biology) An analogous gland in invertebrates such as the hydra.

Latin

Etymology 1

For *terstis, from Proto-Italic *tristis, from Proto-Indo-European *tristh?s ("a third party standing", after the two parties to a contract or dispute), from *tréyes (“three”) and *steh?- (“to stand”). Compare Oscan trstus (“witnesses”, nominative plural).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tes.tis/, [?t??s?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tes.tis/, [?t??st?is]

Noun

testis m or f (genitive testis); third declension

1. witness
2. one who testifies or attests

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

• testor

Related terms

Etymology 2

• From some particular use of testis (“witness”), as in "bearing witness to virility" or "two together" (considering also the slang uses in Ancient Greek of ?????????? (parastátai, “colleagues, testicles”) and, more recently, French témoins),
• or related to testa (“pot, shell”).

Noun

testis m (genitive testis); third declension

1. testicle

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

• testiculus

Descendants

• English: testis
• Italian: teste

References

• 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, 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.
• 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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin testis.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

t?stis m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. (anatomy) testicle

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin testis.

Noun

testis

1. testicle

Declension

Synonyms

• er bezi

See also

• ta?ak (vulgar)