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pondus Judaeus

pondus Judaeus noun: a weight attached to the penis in order to restore the foreskin to someone who has been circumcised, chiefly with reference to Jews in Ancient Rome.

Noun

pondus Judaeus

  1. (historical) A weight attached to the penis in order to restore the foreskin to someone who has been circumcised, chiefly with reference to Jews in Ancient Rome.
    • They also invented the "Pondus Judaeus," a bronze sheath worn so as to pull on the skin of the preputial fragment to make it re-cover the glans.1965, Medical Times, volume 93, page 589
    • Epispasm was generally enacted according to Celsus, but also with the aid of the so-called pondus Judaeus or "Jewish weight"; a long, funnel-shaped copper or leather tube encasing the penis and clasping the skin that was drawn down by force of weights.1967, Allen Edwardes, Erotica Judaica, page 114

Origin of pondus Judaeus

Latin

Questions about pondus Judaeus

What does pondus Judaeus mean?
Pondus Judaeus means a weight attached to the penis in order to restore the foreskin to someone who has been circumcised, chiefly with reference to Jews in Ancient Rome.
What part of speech is pondus Judaeus?
Pondus Judaeus is a noun.

Words near pondus Judaeus in the dictionary

  1. pondskaters
  2. pondspice
  3. pondstead
  4. pondsteads
  5. pondus
  6. pondus Judaeus
  7. pondward
  8. pondwards
  9. pondwater
  10. pondwaters
  11. pondweed

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