culus

From Proto-Indo-European *kuH-l-, zero-grade without s-mobile form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Cognates include Old Irish cúl (“bottom”), Lithuanian kẽvalas (“skin, cover”) and indirectly Old English hȳd (English hide). Related to obscūrus (“dark, obscure”) and cutis (“hide”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.lus/, [ˈkuː.ɫʊs]

cūlus m (genitive cūlī); second declension

1. (vulgar) (anatomy) The anus, arse; the posterior, buttocks
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 97, (translation adapted by H.J.Walker, which can be viewed here):

     Non (ita me di ament) quicquam referre putaui,
     utrumne os an culum olfacerem Aemilio.

     I swear by the gods I didn't think it mattered one straw,
     whether I sniffed Aemilius's head or his arse.

Second declension.

• ānus
• clūnis
• pōdex
• puga

• cūlō
• cūlōsus

• culus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• culus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• culus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• culus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

culus

1. heavy