英语词汇testicle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	testicle
词源	testicle [LME] The ancient Romans felt that a man’s testicles testified that he was male. They formed the word testiculus from Latin testis ‘witness’, the source also of attest [L16th]; detest [LME] which originally meant to denounce; protest [LME]; testify [LME]; and intestate [LME] ‘without a witnessed will’. The testicles were the ‘witnesses’ of the man’s virility.
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