Männlich

écrou

(Englisch)

nut (that fits on a bolt), female screw

Frequenz

40k
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/e.kʁu/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

Masculinized form from Middle French escroue, from Old French escroe, from Latin scrōfa, originally “sow (female pig)”; compare Occitan escrofa (“screw nut”), Sicilian scrufina (“screw nut”). The change in meaning is also found in Spanish puerca, Portuguese porca, both “sow; screw nut”, and is based on the fact that a boar's penis has a screw-like tip, making the sow's vulva equivalent to a screw nut by analogy.

nakrętka

παξιμάδι

schroefmoer

female screw

escrofa

moerschroef

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