ejaculate

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin ēiaculātus, perfect active participle of ēiaculor (“to hurl, shoot out”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from ē (“out”) + iaculor (“throw, dart”), from iaculum (“a missile, a dart”), from iaciō (“to throw, to hurl”). === Pronunciation === Verb (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈdʒæk.jʊ.leɪt/ (General American) enPR: ĭjăʹkyəlāt, IPA(key): /ɪˈd͡ʒæk.jə.leɪt/ Noun (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈdʒæk.jʊ.lət/ (General American) enPR: ĭjăʹkyələt, IPA(key): /ɪˈd͡ʒæk.jə.lət/ Hyphenation Hyphenation: eja‧cu‧late === Verb === ejaculate (third-person singular simple present ejaculates, present participle ejaculating, simple past and past participle ejaculated) (transitive) To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly. Synonyms: eject, throw out 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem. Demonstrating the Existence and Providence of a God. In Seven Books, book I, London: Printed for S. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little-Britain; and J[acob] Tonson, at Shakespear's Head over-against Catherine-Street in the Strand, OCLC 731619916; 5th edition, Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, in Dame's-street, 1727, OCLC 728300884, page 7: The mighty Magnet from the Center darts / This ſtrong, tho' ſubtile Force, thro' all the Parts: / Its active Rays ejaculated thence, / Irradiate all the wide Circumference. (dated, intransitive) To say abruptly. Synonym: blurt out (biology, transitive) To eject or suddenly throw fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure. (specifically, transitive and intransitive) Of a human being or other mammal: to forcibly eject from the urethra in response to sexual stimulation, in a male, semen; and, in a female, vaginal fluid. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ejaculate (transitive, rare) To sexually stimulate (someone) so that they eject fluid from the urethra. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ejaculation ejaculator ejaculatory eject ejection ==== Translations ==== === Noun === ejaculate (countable and uncountable, plural ejaculates) Fluid or some other substance ejected or suddenly thrown from a duct or other body structure; specifically, semen or vaginal fluid ejected by a human being or other mammal during an ejaculation. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== shot spot === Further reading === “ejaculate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ejaculate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.