mentula.
male sexual organ; (rude); (used as a term of abuse);
Meaning & usage
dick, cock (obscene word for the penis)
Where this word comes from
Most linguists derive it from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to protrude, to project, to stick out”), making it cognate with emineō (“to project”) and mōns (“mountain”). Possibly from Italic-Celtic *mn̥tolā, if cognate to Irish méadal (“paunch, fat belly”), where "the original meaning of the Irish and Latin words seems to have been 'projecting part of the body'". The form is equivalent to menta (“mint stalk”) + -ula (diminutive suffix) and Cicero uses "mentam pusillam" to obliquely refer to this word when discussing the topic of obscenity. It has been suggested this is its etymology, but Adams 1990 regards this as unlikely. Chantraine mentions that, a century ago, Spitzer and Friedländer considered a connection to mens f (“mind”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”).
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