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culus.

buttocks; posterior; anus; (rude);

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Meaning & usage

noun[ˈkuː.ɫʊs]Classical-Latin[ˈkuː.lus]
  1. the arse, ass (the anus and buttocks together)

    declension-2 · vulgar
    in Orcī cūlum incidās
Where this word comes from

Uncertain, though most likely Related to Proto-Celtic *kūlos (“posterior”). The term is traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-lo-s, from *(s)kewH- (“cover, conceal, hide, skin”). However, de Vaan, following the LIV, rejects the existence of this root, and prefers to reconstruct a Proto-Indo-European *kuH-lo-s, from *kewh₂- (“to strike, cleave”) (which he reconstructs as *keh₂w-; he also adduces Proto-Germanic *hūdiz (“skin, hide”) and Latin cutis (“skin”), both generally derived from *(s)kewH-, to *kewh₂-, and appears to implicitly consider *(s)kewH- a mis-reconstructed form of *kewh₂-.

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