prostate

See also: prostrate and pro-state

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *próder.

Ancient Greek πρό (pró)

Ancient Greek προ- (pro-)

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-redup.

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti

Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi

Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi)

Ancient Greek προΐστημι (proḯstēmi)

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)

Ancient Greek προστάτης (prostátēs)bor.

Medieval Latin prostatalbor.

Middle French prostatebor.

English prostate

Borrowed from Middle French prostate, a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin prostata.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɒs.teɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɑs.teɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɒsteɪt
• Hyphenation: pros‧tate

Noun

prostate (plural prostates)

1. The prostate gland. [from 1646]
   • 2022 August 24, Pip Dunn, “A Life Remembered: Paul Taylor - February 9 1971-August 9 2022”, in RAIL, number 964, page 24:

     Finally, Paul made me get my prostate checked. As I say, he's already left a legacy. But if you haven't chaps, please get yourself checked over - it's worth it.

Derived terms

• antiprostate
• benign prostate enlargement
• female prostate
• paraprostate
• prostaglandin
• prostasome
• prostasphere
• prostate cancer
• prostate massage
• prostate-specific
• prostate-specific antigen
• prostatic
• prostatism
• prostatitis
• prostato-

Descendants

• → Hindi: प्रोस्टेट (prosṭeṭ)
• → Urdu: پروسٹیٹ (prosṭeṭ)

Translations

prostate gland — see also prostate gland

• Arabic: بْرُوسْتَات m (brustāt), بَرُوسْتَات m (barustāt), بْرُوسْتَات m (brostāt), مُوثَة f (mūṯa)

  Egyptian Arabic: بروستاتة f (brustāta)

• Armenian: շագանակագեղձ (hy) (šaganakageġj)
• Aromanian: prustat m
• Bengali: প্রোস্টেট (bn) (prōsṭeṭ), প্রোস্টেট গ্রন্থি (bn) (prōsṭeṭ gronthi)
• Bulgarian: простата (bg) f (prostata)
• Catalan: pròstata (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 前列腺 (cin⁴ lit⁶ sin³)

  Hokkien: 攝護腺 / 摄护腺 (liap-hō͘-sòaⁿ)

  Mandarin: 前列腺 (zh) (qiánlièxiàn), 攝護腺 / 摄护腺 (zh) (shèhùxiàn)

• Czech: prostata (cs) f
• Danish: prostata c
• Dutch: prostaat (nl) m
• Esperanto: prostato
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: eturauhanen (fi)
• French: prostate (fr) f
• Friulian: prostate f
• Galician: próstata (gl) f
• Georgian: პროსტატა (ṗrosṭaṭa)
• German: Prostata (de) f
• Greek: προστάτης (el) m (prostátis)
• Hindi: प्रोस्टेट m (prosṭeṭ)
• Hungarian: prosztata (hu)
• Icelandic: hvekkur
• Indonesian: prostat (id)
• Irish: próstatach m
• Italian: prostata (it) f
• Japanese: 前立腺 (ja) (ぜんりつせん, zenritsusen)
• Kazakh: қуықалды без (quwıqaldı bez), қуық асты безі (quwıq astı bezi)
• Khmer: ប្រូស្តាត (proustaat)
• Korean: 전립선(前立腺) (ko) (jeonnipseon)
• Latvian: priekšdziedzeris m
• Lithuanian: prostata f
• Māori: repe tātea, repe ure
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: түрүү булчирхай (türüü bulčirxai), урьд булчирхай (urʹd bulčirxai) (China)

  Mongolian script: ᠲᠦᠷᠦᠭᠦᠦ
  ᠪᠤᠯᠴᠢᠷᠬᠠᠢ (türügüü bulčirqai), ᠤᠷᠢᠳᠤ
  ᠪᠤᠯᠴᠢᠷᠬᠠᠢ (uridu bulčirqai) (China)

• Navajo: alizh bikááz
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: prostata m

  Nynorsk: prostata m

• Occitan: prostata f
• Persian: پروستات (fa) (porostât, prostât)
• Polish: prostata (pl) f
• Portuguese: próstata (pt) f
• Romanian: prostată (ro) f
• Russian: проста́та (ru) f (prostáta)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: ovdaráksá

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: простата f, корењача f

  Latin: prostata (sh) f, korenjača f

• Slovene: prostata (sl) f, obsečnica f
• Spanish: próstata (es) f
• Swahili: tezi dume
• Swedish: prostata (sv)
• Turkish: prostat (tr), kestanecik (tr)
• Ukrainian: проста́та f (prostáta)
• Urdu: پروسٹیٹ m (prosṭeṭ)
• Uyghur: مەزى بېزى (mezi bëzi)
• Vietnamese: tuyến tiền liệt (vi) (腺前列) , nhiếp hộ tuyến (攝護腺)
• Volapük: prostat (vo)
• Welsh: prostad f
• Zhuang: cenzlezsen

Adjective

prostate (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the prostate gland.

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *pér

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *próder.

Proto-Italic *prō

Latin prōder.

English pro-

Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s

Proto-Italic *status

Latin statuslbor.

Old French estatbor.

Middle English stat

English state

English prostate

From pro- + state.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹəʊˈsteɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: (UK) -eɪt
• Hyphenation: pro‧state

Adjective

prostate (comparative more prostate, superlative most prostate)

1. Alternative spelling of pro-state.

Further reading

• prostate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek προστάτης (prostátēs, “one who stands before”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔs.tat/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

prostate f (plural prostates)

1. prostate

   Synonym: (anatomy) glande prostatique

Derived terms

• prostatique

Descendants

• → Persian: پروستات (porostât)
• → Polish: prostata
• → Turkish: prostat

Further reading

• “prostate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Noun

prostate f

1. plural of prostata

Anagrams

• Serpotta, aspretto, portaste, prestato, protesta, sportate, spretato, sterpato, traposte

Latin

Verb

prōstāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of prōstō