Circumcised

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. The surgical procedure involves the removal of the skin covering the head of the penis, often associated with cultural, religious, or health-related practices
2. This medical operation consists of excising the foreskin from the penis and is prevalent in specific cultural or religious customs
3. Having had the foreskin of the penis surgically removed, typically for religious, cultural, or medical reasons

Etymology: "Circumcised" is the past tense and past participle of "circumcise," which comes from Latin "circumcīdere," literally "to cut around," formed from "circum" ("around") and "caedere" ("to cut"). The same Latin root gave English "concise" and "incision" through other routes, though those words are not direct descendants of this verb. The verb reached English through Old French "circumciser" (modern French "circoncire"), which took the Latin past participle "circumcīsus" as its base. Middle English adopted it as "circumcisen," so the English verb has been part of the language since the medieval period, and its sense has stayed narrow: it means the surgical removal of foreskin, with the literal "cutting around" image still visible in the Latin.

Synonyms: cut, trimmed

Antonyms: uncircumcised