mutuniatus

Latin

Etymology

From mutūnium (“penis”) +‎ -ātus (“-ed”), from the same root as mūtō~muttō, -ōnis (“penis”). Attested in hendecasyllabic verses of Martial and the Priapea, where the meter requires the first syllable to scan with a short vowel. Weiss (1996) proposes that this is a case of a geminate being shortened after an unaccented vowel, as seen in sacellus for saccellus[1] (compare mamilla from mamma). It is not known why the vowel in the second syllable appears as ū rather than as ō.[2] (For mutūnium, the spelling muttōnium is attested in Lucilius.) Weiss proposes the following origin for forms with ū in this family of words: initially, the root was combined with the suffix -īnus, forming an adjective mū̆tīnus. After becoming used as the name of a god, Mutunus Tutunus, the form Mū̆tīnus was altered to Mū̆tūnus under the influence of other deity names ending in -ūnus, such as Neptūnus and Portūnus, and then the ū in the second syllable of Mū̆tūnus served as the basis of ū in forms like mū̆tūnium and mutūniātus.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

mutūniātus (feminine mutūniāta, neuter mutūniātum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (vulgar) well-endowed, having a large penis
    • 38 CE – 104 CE, Martial, Epigrams 3.73:
      Dormīs cum puerīs mutūniātīs, et nōn stat tibi, Phoebe, quod stat illīs.
      You sleep with well-endowed boys, Phoebus, and what stands for them doesn't stand for you.
    • 38 CE – 104 CE, Martial, Epigrams 11.63:
      Spectās nōs, Philomūse, cum lavāmur, / Et quārē mihi tam mutūniātī / Sint lēvēs puerī, subinde quaeris.
      You watch us, Philomusus, when we wash, / and often you inquire why I have such well hung smooth boys.
    • c. 1st century CE, Carmina Priapea 52.10:
      ad prātum veniet salāx asellus / nīlō dēterius mutūniātus.
      To the meadow will come a lustful ass / no less well hung.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative mutūniātus mutūniāta mutūniātum mutūniātī mutūniātae mutūniāta
Genitive mutūniātī mutūniātae mutūniātī mutūniātōrum mutūniātārum mutūniātōrum
Dative mutūniātō mutūniātō mutūniātīs
Accusative mutūniātum mutūniātam mutūniātum mutūniātōs mutūniātās mutūniāta
Ablative mutūniātō mutūniātā mutūniātō mutūniātīs
Vocative mutūniāte mutūniāta mutūniātum mutūniātī mutūniātae mutūniāta

References
  1. Weiss, Michael (1996), “Greek μυρίος 'countless', Hittite mūri- 'bunch (of fruit)'”, in Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics, volume 109, issue 2, page 208
  2. Adams, J.N. (2007) The regional diversification of Latin, 200 BC-AD 600, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 76

Further reading
  • mutuniatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • mutuniatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Adams, J.N. (1990) The Latin Sexual Vocabulary‎, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 63
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