ejaculatio praecox

noun

Premature ejaculation.

OriginLatin ējaculāri →
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Meanings

nounejaculatio praecox (uncountable)
  1. uncountablePremature ejaculation.

    This can be done psychoanalytically, as for example in the suggestion that salt is a symbol of semen and that the objection to spilling it reflects an unconscious fear of ejaculatio praecox.

    1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 607

Synonyms & antonyms

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premature ejaculation

Origin

  1. Latinējaculāri“to eject”
  2. Englishejaculatio praecox

Modern Latin, from noun type formed from participle stem of Latin ējaculāri (“to eject”) + praecox (“early”).

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