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Knut Jannsen
- 2016-09-15
In response to Re It's Started ! (Foxy)
Do a search on Wiki for the origin of 'testify' (as in court) and you may begin to share my enthusiasm, lol.
Sorry to dispel a favorite misconception, amusing as it may be:
testis (n.) Look up testis at Dictionary.com
(plural testes), 1704, from Latin testis "testicle," usually regarded as a special application of testis "witness" (see testament), presumably because it "bears witness to male virility" [Barnhart]. Stories that trace the use of the Latin word to some supposed swearing-in ceremony are modern and groundless.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=testis&allowed_in_frame=0
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