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Where does “prepuce” come from?

prepuce (Middle English) comes from Old French prepuce, from Latin praepūtium.

Ancestry of “prepuce”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchprepuceforeskin
2Latinpraepūtium—

Words derived from “prepuce”

  • prepuce
  • megaprepuce
Every word from Latin praepūtium →