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Is testis a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word testis is a Scrabble US word. The word testis is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is testis a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word testis is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

TESTIS,

5-letter words (5 found)

SETTS,SITES,STETS,STIES,TESTS,

4-letter words (15 found)

ESTS,SEIS,SETS,SETT,SIES,SIST,SITE,SITS,STET,STIE,TEST,TETS,TIES,TITE,TITS,

3-letter words (12 found)

ESS,EST,ITS,SEI,SET,SIS,SIT,TES,TET,TIE,TIS,TIT,

2-letter words (8 found)

ES,ET,IS,IT,SI,ST,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 42 words from testis according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of testis

testis

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin testis.

Pronunciation

Noun

testis (plural testes)

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

Related terms

Latin

Etymology 1

For *terstis, from Proto-Italic *tristos, from Proto-Indo-European *tristh₂s ("a third party standing", after the two parties to a contract or dispute), from *tréyes (“three”) and *steh₂- (“to stand”). Compare Oscan trstus (“witnesses”, nominative plural).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtes.tis/, [ˈt̪ɛs̠t̪ɪs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtes.tis/, [ˈt̪ɛst̪is]

Noun

testis m or f (genitive testis); third declension

  2. witness
    Synonyms: arbiter, auctor
  3. one who testifies or attests
Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms
  • testor
Related terms
Descendants
  • → Italian: teste (learned)
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *tɨst
    • Middle Welsh: tyst
      • Welsh: tyst

Etymology 2

Of disputed origin. Perhaps either:

  • From some particular use of testis (“witness”), as in "bearing witness to the sex act", or
  • Related to testa (“pot, shell”).

Noun

testis m (genitive testis); third declension

  2. testicle
Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms
  • testiculus
Descendants
  • → English: testis (learned)
  • → Indonesian: testis (learned)
  • → Italian: teste (learned)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: (learned)
    Cyrillic script: тестис
    Latin script: tȅstis
  • → Turkish: testis (learned)

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

tȅstis m (Cyrillic spelling те̏стис)

  1. (anatomy) testicle

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin testis.

Pronunciation

Noun

testis (definite accusative testisi, plural testisler)

  1. testicle
    Synonym: er bezi

Declension

See also

  • taşak (vulgar)

Source: wiktionary.org