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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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”).

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

mentula f (genitive mentulae); first declension

1. (vulgar, anatomy) dick, cock (obscene word for the penis)
   • a. 54 BC, Catullus, Carmina, 29

     Ut ista vestra diffututa mentula

     ducenties comesset aut trecenties?

   • 38 CE – 104 CE, Martial, Epigrammata IX.33:

     Maronis illic esse mentulam scito.

     Know that Maro's cock is found there

First-declension noun.

• penis
• veretrum
• verpa

• mentulātus
• *mintula

• → 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