mentula

Borrowed 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.

• nu metal, nu-metal, nutmeal, nü-metal

Disputed.

• Some 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'".^[1]
• Others favor a connection to mens f (“mind”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”).^[2]
• 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.^[2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛn.tʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛn.tu.la]

mentula f (genitive mentulae); first declension

1. (vulgar) dick, cock (obscene word for the penis)

   Synonyms: pēnis, veretrum, (vulgar) mūtō

   Hyponym: (vulgar) verpa

   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 29:

     Ut ista vestra diffututa mentula
     ducenties comesset aut trecenties?

     Would the two-hundredth time be enough for your cock to have had enough, nay, even the three-hundredth?

   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata IX.33:

     Maronis illic esse mentulam scito.

     Know that Maro's cock is found there.

First-declension noun.

• mentulātus

• “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.