mentula

• mentule

From Latin mentula.

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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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'". Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- "to protrude, to project, to stick out", hence emineō (“I project”) and mōns (“mountain”), + -ula. Others have suggested a connection to mens (“mind”) or menta (“mint stalk”)

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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?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata IX.33:

     Maronis illic esse mentulam scito.

     Know that Maro's cock is found there.

First-declension noun.

• mentulātus

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

• “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.