Ejaculator

Part of speech: noun

Pronunciation: /ɪˈd͡ʒækjəˌleɪtəɹ/

Definitions

1. A person or device that discharges bodily fluids, especially semen, during an orgasm or a procedure designed to eject liquids in medical and industrial settings
2. A person who expels seminal fluid during sexual climax or a mechanism intended to release substances rapidly in various medical and engineering applications
3. An individual who releases semen at the peak of sexual excitement or a tool that facilitates the quick ejection of materials in healthcare and manufacturing processes

Etymology: Latin "iaculum" was a javelin or dart, and "iaculari" meant to hurl one. Add the prefix "ex-" ("out") and you get "eiaculari," to throw out. English borrowed the past participle "eiaculatus" as the verb "ejaculate," so the root image is literally of something flung forward. In English, the verb first meant to utter something suddenly, like a shout or exclamation, and its bodily and sexual senses developed from there. The noun is simply "ejaculate" plus the agent suffix "-or," which denotes a person or thing that performs the action. Later, engineers and medical writers applied the term to devices and mechanisms that expel material rapidly.