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ejaculatio praecox en · NOUN

Etymology

Modern Latin, from noun type formed from participle stem of Latin ējaculāri (“to eject”) + praecox (“early”).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Premature ejaculation.
    • This can be done psychoanalytically, as for example in the suggestion that salt is a symbol of semen and that the objection to spilling it reflects an unconscious fear of ejaculatio praecox. 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 607: