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Latin
Etymology
From verpa (“penis”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
verpus (feminine verpa, neuter verpum); first/second-declension adjective (vulgar)
- (of a penis or its owner) erect, having a hard-on with the foreskin drawn back as a result
- (by extension) horny (ready for a sexual act)
- (of a penis or its owner) circumcised
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Noun
verpus m (genitive verpī); second declension (vulgar)
- (transferred) The active partner in a sexual act, especially a homosexual one
- Synonyms: pēdīcātor, irrumātor
- (figurative) Synonym of digitus verpus (“the middle finger”)
- A circumcised person
c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE,
Juvenal,
Satires 5.14.104:
- Quaesītum ad fontem sōlōs dēdūcere verpōs.
- To guide only the circumcised to the spring they thirst for.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- Adams, James Noel (1982) The Latin sexual vocabulary, Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13
Further reading
- “verpus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “verpus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- verpus 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)
- verpus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.