mentula

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin mentula.

Noun

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.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Probably a diminutive of mens (“mind”) or menta (“mint stalk”). Other sources see it as coming ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men-, cognate with emineō (“I project”) and mōns (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmen.tu.la/, [ˈmɛn.tʊ.ɫa]

Noun

mentula f (genitive mentulae); first declension

  1. (vulgar) (anatomy) dick, cock (obscene word for the penis)
    • Catullus, Carmina, 29
      ut ista vestra diffututa mentula
      ducenties comesset aut trecenties?
  2. vocative singular of mentula

mentulā

  1. ablative singular of mentula

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative mentula mentulae
genitive mentulae mentulārum
dative mentulae mentulīs
accusative mentulam mentulās
ablative mentulā mentulīs
vocative mentula mentulae

Synonyms

  • mentulātus

Descendants

References

  • 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
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