ejaculatio praecox

English

Etymology

Modern Latin, from noun type formed from participle stem of Latin ējaculāri (“to eject”) + praecox (“early”).

Noun

ejaculatio praecox (uncountable)

1. Premature ejaculation.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 607:

     This can be done psychoanalytically, as for example in the suggestion that salt is a symbol of semen and that the objection to spilling it reflects an unconscious fear of ejaculatio praecox.