English word masturbate comes from Latin manus (hand), Latin disturbare (disturb), and later Latin masturbor (defile, masturbate)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| manus | Latin (lat) | (anatomical) hand, as the part of the fore limb below the forearm in a human, or the corresponding part in other vertebrates (figuratively) bravery, valor. (figuratively) violence, fighting. (legal) an arrest. (legal) legal power of a man over his wife. (military, nautical) grappling hooks used to snare enemy vessels. A side, part, faction. A stake (in dice). A thrust with a sword. Branch of a tree. Group of people. Group, company, host, multitude of people, especially of soldiers. Hand. Handwriting. Labor. Paw of [...] |
| disturbare | Latin (lat) | to disturb, demolish, destroy |
| masturbor | Latin (lat) | I defile myself. I masturbate. |
| masturbate | English (en) | (informal, derogatory) To stimulate or please oneself by means of anything, not necessarily sexual, that does not get them anywhere; something that wastes their time; something that does not help others or achieve any important goal.. (intransitive) To stimulate oneself sexually, especially by use of one’s hand, sometimes with a partner.. (transitive, colloquial) To stimulate someone else [...] |