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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kūlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-l-, zero-grade form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”) without s-mobile.
Cognates include Old Irish cúl (“bottom”), Lithuanian kẽvalas (“skin, cover”). Related to cutis (“hide”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cūlus m (genitive cūlī); second declension
- (vulgar, anatomy) The posterior, arse, ass, buttocks
c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE,
Catullus,
Carmina 97, (translation adapted by H.J.Walker, which can be viewed
here):
- Non (ita me di ament) quicquam referre putaui,
utrumne os an culum olfacerem Aemilio.- I swear by the gods, I didn't think it mattered one straw,
whether I sniffed Aemilius's head or his arse.
- (vulgar, anatomy) The anus
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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References
- “culus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “culus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "culus", 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)
- culus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Somali
Adjective
culus
- heavy