Genitalia vs Tumtum - What's the difference?
genitalia | tumtum |
genital or sex organs
a collection of genitals
(Jewish, slang) One whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite.
* 2003 , Avraham Steinberg, Fred Rosner, Encyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics , p. 50:
* 2001 , Ruth N. Sandberg, Development and Discontinuity in Jewish Law , p. 100:
* 1996 , David Charles Kraemer, Reading the Rabbis: the Talmud as Literature , p. 122:
* 1949 , Maimonides, The Code of Maimonides: The Book of Civil Laws , p. 273:
As nouns the difference between genitalia and tumtum
is that genitalia is (genitals or sex organs) while tumtum is (jewish|slang) one whose gender can not be determined by a physical examination; a person lacking external genitalia; an androgynous person; sometimes a hermaphrodite.genitalia
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Usage notes
Not used in the singular, which theoretically would be genitale .Synonyms
* genitals (sense 1) * See alsoSee also
* sex organ * female genital mutilation ----tumtum
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(en noun)- A. DEFINITION OF THE TERM The term tumtum , meaning ambiguous genitalia, is not found in Scripture.
- A tumtum and a hermaphrodite should not dress like a woman, but neither should they cut the hair on their head like a man.
- As it happens, the baraita in question speaks of the tumtum' twice, introducing an apparent redundancy into the text. To be specific, Abbaye's solution, proposing an unusual interpretation of the first '''tumtum''' ("his testicles are evident from the outside"), allows for a different reading of ' tumtum in each of his two usages.
- Therefore, if a man died leaving a son and a tumtum' or a hermaphrodyte, the son inherits everything, since the heirship of the ' tumtum or of the hermaphrodyte is doubtful.
