testosterone
/tɛˈstɑ.stəˌɹoʊn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Mammalian testes contain almost no testosterone because it is sent out into the body as quickly as it is made."
- "The text recounts a 2011 experiment: Researchers tested 136 healthy young men’s testosterone levels, asked them about their political party affiliations, then gave them either a placebo or ten grams of AndroGel one percent, a high-end dose of a common form of testosterone often used in hormone replacement therapies."
- "Mother encouraged James to rely more on intelligence and less on testosterone to deal with the neighbor's son."
- "The MPS is a male orientated and misogynistic environment filled with testosterone, notches on bed posts and conquests."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin testislbor. English test(is) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der. Latin -o-bor. English -o- Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- Proto-Hellenic *kʰolā́ Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ) Proto-Indo-European *ster-der. Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós) French cholestérine French cholestérolbor. English cholesterol English sterol German Ketonbor. English ketone English -one English -sterone English testosterone From test(is) + -o- + -sterone (“steroid hormone”).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /tɛˈstɑ.stəˌɹoʊn/
- British English: /tɛˈstɒ.stə.ɹəʊn/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
cloxotestosterone
dehydrotestosterone
dihydroxytestosterone
epitestosterone
hydroxytestosterone
ketotestosterone
methyltestosterone
nortestosterone
testosteronal
testosteroned
testosteronemia
testosteroney