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語源

From Latin, borrowed from Ancient Greek σμῆγμα (smêgma), alternative form of σμῆμα (smêma, “soap, detergent”), from σμάω (smáō, “to wipe, clean”).

発音

• enPR: smĕgʹmə, IPA: /ˈsmɛɡmə/

名詞

smegma (countable and uncountable, plural smegmata or smegmas)

1. A whitish sebaceous secretion that collects between the glans penis and foreskin or in the vulva.
   • 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 30:

     I saw Mrs St Cloud wander happily through the flower-filled streets, her belly smeared with smegma, breasts bruised by the hands of boys.

同意語

• cheese (slang), cock cheese (vulgar slang), dick cheese (vulgar slang), knob cheese (vulgar slang)

派生語

• smeg

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “smegma”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

語源

From Ancient Greek σμῆγμᾰ (smêgmă), from σμήχω (smḗkhō, “to soap off”) from σμάω (smáō, “to wipe, clean”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈsmeːɡ.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈzmɛɡ.ma]

名詞

smēgma n (genitive smēgmatis); variously declined, third declension, second declension

1. ointment

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem) or second-declension noun (neuter).

The second-declension plural is generally post-Classical, though dative plural smēgmatīs / zmēgmatīs occurs once in Pliny.

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参照

Further reading

• “smegma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “smēgma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• smēgma in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• "smegma", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)