mentula

Meaning

dick, cock (obscene word for the penis)

Concepts

penis

dick

cock

member

prick

peter

phallus

rod

shaft

tool

willy

putz

John Thomas

dong

dork

joystick

🕹️

pecker

Synonyms

verpa

penis

phallus

fascinum

membrum virile

mutonium

kontol

purusa

sirit

coda

cauda

sopitio

sopio

curculio

Translations

penis

pene

Penis

πέος

sik

penis

Schwanz

lul

piemel

cazzo

pénis

Pimmel

ψωλή

زب

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈmɛn.tʊ.ɫa]

Etymology

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'".
*Others favor a connection to mens f (“mind”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”).
*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.