mentula
Meaning
- femininevulgardick, cock (obscene word for the penis)
Ut ista vestra diffututa mentula
Would the two-hundredth time be enough for your cock to have had enough, nay, even the three-hundredth?c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 29Maronis illic esse mentulam scito.
Know that Maro's cock is found there.86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata IX.33
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mentula | mentulae |
| genitive | mentulae | mentulārum |
| dative | mentulae | mentulīs |
| accusative | mentulam | mentulās |
| ablative | mentulā | mentulīs |
| vocative | mentula | mentulae |
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
Most linguists derive it from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to protrude, to project, to stick out”), making it cognate with emineō (“to project”) and mōns (“mountain”). Possibly from Italic-Celtic *mn̥tolā, if cognate to Irish méadal (“paunch, fat belly”), where "the original meaning of the Irish and Latin words seems to have been 'projecting part of the body'". The form is equivalent to menta (“mint stalk”) + -ula (diminutive suffix) and Cicero uses "mentam pusillam" to obliquely refer to this word when discussing the topic of obscenity. It has been suggested this is its etymology, but Adams 1990 regards this as unlikely. Chantraine mentions that, a century ago, Spitzer and Friedländer considered a connection to mens f (“mind”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”).
- Englishmentula
- Frenchmentule
- Italianmentula
- Italianmentola
- Italianmenchero
- Neapolitanmenchia
- Sicilianmenchia
- Vulgar Latin*mintula
In English words that came into English from mentula
- mentulamentula