fellatio

See also: Fellatio

English

Alternative forms

• fellation

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-

Latin fellō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Italic *-tjō

Latin -tiō

Latin fellātiōlbor.

English fellatio

Learned borrowing from Latin fellātiō, from fellātus, perfect participle of fellō (“I suck, I fellate”). The word started to appear in medical literature in the 19th century but it was still treated as Latin. In 1919, the California Supreme Court struck down a law criminalizing fellatio because the state constitution required laws to be written in English. By the late 20th century, fellatio was treated as an English word.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fəˈleɪ.ʃi.əʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fəˈleɪ.ʃi.oʊ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃiəʊ
• Hyphenation: fel‧la‧tio

Noun

fellatio (usually uncountable, plural fellatios)

1. The stimulation of the penis using the mouth.

   Synonyms: blowjob, cocksucking, French, gobby, hummer, head, nosh, penilingus; see also Thesaurus:oral sex

   Coordinate term: cunnilingus

   • 1897, Havelock Ellis, Das Konträre Geschlechtsgefühl [Sexual Inversion] (in German):

     In 7 oder 8 anderen Fällen ging die geschlechtliche Beziehung selten über enge Berührung oder gegenseitige Masturbation hinaus. In 2 oder 3 anderen Fällen ist fellatio die bevorzugte Methode.

     In eight or nine ^[sic] cases the sexual relationship rarely goes beyond close physical contact, or at most mutual masturbation. In two or three cases fellatio is the form preferred.

   • [1919 January 9, Supreme Court of California, In re Lockett, 57 Cal. Dec. 96:

     That the word "fellatio" has not become Anglicized is so clearly apparent that further comment seems unnecessary. […] Section 288a of the Penal Code is void for uncertainty as well as for the reason that it is not expressed in the English language.]

Derived terms

• autofellatio

Related terms

• fellator
• fellatrix

 

Translations

• This translation table is meant for standard terms only. For informal, colloquial and vulgar terms, see the translation table at blowjob.

oral stimulation of the penis

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: مَصّ قَضِيب m (maṣṣ qaḍīb), لَعْق قَضِيب m (laʕq qaḍīb)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: felazio
• Belarusian: феля́цыя f (fjeljácyja)
• Bikol Central: pagtsupa
• Bulgarian: фелацио (felacio)
• Catalan: fel·lació f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 口交 (hau² gaau¹)

  Mandarin: 口交 (zh) (kǒujiāo), 口淫 (zh) (kǒuyín), 吮陽 / 吮阳 (shǔnyáng), 咂陽 / 咂阳 (zāyáng)

• Czech: felace (cs) f
• Danish: fellatio
• Dutch: fellatio (nl)
• Esperanto: midzo (eo)
• Finnish: fellaatio (fi)
• French: fellation (fr) f
• Galician: felación (gl) f
• Georgian: ფელაცია (pelacia), მინეტი (mineṭi)
• German: Fellatio (de) f
• Greek: πεολειξία (el) f (peoleixía), πεοθηλασμός (el) m (peothilasmós)
• Hebrew: מְצִיצָה (he) f (mtzitzá)
• Hindi: शिश्न चूषण m (śiśna cūṣaṇ), मुखमैथुन m (mukhmaithun)
• Hungarian: felláció (hu)
• Icelandic: reðursog n (stimulation of penis; rare), munnmök n pl (oral sex generally; commonly used)
• Italian: fellatio (it) f, fellazione (it) f
• Japanese: フェラチオ (ja) (ferachio), フェラ (ja) (fera), 尺八 (ja) (しゃくはち, shakuhachi)
• Korean: 펠라티오 (ko) (pellatio), 구음(口淫) (gueum), 펠라치오 (pellachio)
• Lithuanian: felacija f
• Macedonian: фелацио n (felacio)
• Malayalam: വദനസുരതം (vadanasurataṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: fellatio m

• Polish: fellatio (pl) n
• Portuguese: felação (pt) f
• Romanian: felație (ro) f
• Russian: фелля́ция (ru) f (felljácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фелација f

  Roman: felacija (sh) f

• Slovak: felácia (sk) f, orálny sex m
• Spanish: felación (es) f, ^{(please verify)} fellatio (es) m or f
• Swedish: fellatio (sv)
• Tagalog: pagtsupa
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: ముఖమైథునము (mukhamaithunamu)
• Thai: เฟอเลชิโอ (fəə-lee-chí-ôo)
• Turkish: fellatio
• Ukrainian: феля́ція f (feljácija)
• Vietnamese: liếm dương vật
• Welsh: calsugno m

See also

• oral sex
• irrumatio, irrumation
• sixty-nine

Further reading

• fellatio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• oral sex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fellātiō, from fellō + -tiō.

Noun

fellatio f (invariable)

1. fellatio (stimulation of the penis with the mouth)

Anagrams

• folliate

Latin

Etymology

From fellō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /feːlˈlaː.ti.oː/, [feːlˈlʲäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /felˈlat.t͡si.o/, [felˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

fēllātiō f (genitive fēllātiōnis); third declension

1. fellatio (stimulation of the penis with the mouth)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fēllātiō	fēllātiōnēs
genitive	fēllātiōnis	fēllātiōnum
dative	fēllātiōnī	fēllātiōnibus
accusative	fēllātiōnem	fēllātiōnēs
ablative	fēllātiōne	fēllātiōnibus
vocative	fēllātiō	fēllātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: fel·lació
• → Czech: felace
• → English: fellatio, fellation
• → Finnish: fellaatio
• → French: fellation
  • → Romanian: felație
• → Galician: felación
• → German: Fellatio
• Italian: → fellatio, fellazione
• → Japanese: フェラチオ (ferachio)
• → Lithuanian: felacija
• → Macedonian: фелацио (felacio)
• → Portuguese: felação
• → Russian: фелляция (felljacija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: felacija, фелација
• → Spanish: felación
• → Swedish: fellatio

Swedish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin fellātiō, from fellō + -tiō.

Noun

fellatio

1. fellatio (stimulation of the penis with the mouth)

   Synonyms: avsugning, oralsex

   att utföra fellatio på någon

   to perform fellatio on someone

See also

• anilingus
• cunnilingus
• oralsex
• snaska kotte
• suga av

References

• fellatio in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fellatio in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)