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English
Etymology
From Latin pōdex.
Noun
podex (plural podexes or podices)
- (anatomy, rare) The anus, rectum, or buttocks of a human.
1953, Jack Woodford, Writer's Cramp, page 35:If these native babes went around with their podexes exposed they wouldn't have any because the mosquitoes would eat them off.
- (zoology, rare) The rear end of any animal.
- 1942, Fabricius (ab Aquapendente), Howard Bernhardt Adelmann (translator), The Embryological Treatises of Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente (page 229)
- Ligament which stretches over the surface of the uterus, running obliquely from the podex to the raceme.
Latin
Etymology
An ablaut formation from Proto-Indo-European *pesd- (“fart”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pōdex m (genitive pōdicis); third declension
- (anatomy) anus, rectum, fundament
c. 30 BCE,
Horace,
Epodes 8:
- hietque turpis inter aridas natis podex
- and an anus yawning between arid buttocks
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “podex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “podex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- podex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.