testicle

Borrowed from Latin testiculus, diminutive of testis.

• enPR: tĕsʹtĭ-kəl, IPA^(key): /ˈtɛstɪkəl/

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testicle (plural testicles)

1. A testis: the male sex and endocrine gland, found in some types of animals, that produces sperm and male sex hormones, including the steroid testosterone.
   • 2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, page 372:

     Despite your jogging and the hairiness of your legs, the shoe of aging is beginning to pinch. Soon you'll regret all that sun-tanning. Your face will look like a testicle.

2. (more commonly) Either half of the structure that contains the testes: one side of the scrotum and its contents, considered as one object (one half of the ballsack, including its ball).

• See Thesaurus:testicles

• genitals

• scrotum
• bulla
• bull
• bullock

• telestic

Borrowed from Latin testiculus, diminutive of testis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təsˈti.klə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [tesˈti.kle]

testicle m (plural testicles)

1. testicle

• testicular

• “testicle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “testicle”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “testicle” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “testicle” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.