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'".[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”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.tu.la/, [ˈmɛn̪t̪ʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmen.tu.la/, [ˈmɛn̪t̪ulä]

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.

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.