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noun (plural testes) Etymology: Latin, witness, ~ Date: 1650 a typically paired male reproductive gland that produces sperm and secretes testosterone and that in most mammals is contained within the scrotum at sexual maturity ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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- (pl. testes), 1704, from L. testis "testicle," a special application of testis "witness," presumably because it "bears witness" to virility (cf. Gk. parastates, lit. "one that stands by;" and Fr. slang tйmoins, lit. "witnesses"). But Buck thinks Gk. parastatai "testicles" has been wrongly associated with the legal sense of parastates "supporter, defender" and suggests instead parastatai in the sense of twin "supporting pillars, props of a mast," etc. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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