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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mentula mentulae
Genitive mentulae mentulārum
Dative mentulae mentulīs
Accusative mentulam mentulās
Ablative mentulā mentulīs
Vocative mentula mentulae

Synonyms
  • mentulātus

Descendants

Noun

mentulā

  1. ablative singular of mentula

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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