mentula

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English

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Etymology

From Latin mentula.

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.

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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) dick, cock (obscene word for the penis)
    Synonyms: penis, verētrum, (vulgar) mūtō
    Hyponym: (vulgar) verpa
    • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, 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

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative mentula mentulae
genitive mentulae mentulārum
dative mentulae mentulīs
accusative mentulam mentulās
ablative mentulā mentulīs
vocative mentula mentulae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mintula (see there for further descendants)
  • → English: mentula
  • → 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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