mentula

See also: Mentula

English

Alternative forms

  • mentule

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Noun

mentula (plural mentulas or mentulae or mentulæ)

  1. A penis.
    • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
      He, watchman of gardens, keeps evil away with his mentula up, warding off blight and thieves, garlanded with figs and grapes.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From *mn̥tolā, a possibly Italo-Celtic term considering cognate Irish méadal (paunch, fat belly), where "the original meaning of the Irish and Latin words seems to have been 'projecting part of the body'" [1]. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- "to protrude, to project, to stick out", hence emineō (I project) and mōns (mountain). Others have suggested a connection to mens (mind) or menta (mint stalk)

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Pronunciation

Noun

mentula f (genitive mentulae); first declension

  1. (vulgar, anatomy) dick, cock (obscene word for the penis)
    • a. 54 BC, Catullus, Carmina, 29
      Ut ista vestra diffututa mentula
      ducenties comesset aut trecenties?
    • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata IX.33:
      Maronis illic esse mentulam scito.
      Know that Maro's cock is found there

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • French: mentule

References

  1. Ó Briain, Micheál: (1923) 'Hibernica', Zeitschrift für die Celtische Philologie (14), 318-319. https://codecs.vanhamel.nl/Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_celtische_Philologie_14_(1923).
  • mentula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mentula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mentula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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