mentule
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin mentula (vulgar term for the penis).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mentule f (plural mentules)
- (rare, archaic) penis
- 1534, Rabelais, chapter 17, in Gargantua:
- Tirant sa mentule en l’air, les compissa sy aigrement qu’il en noya deux cens soixante mille quatre cens dix et huyt- sans les femmes et les petitz enfans […] .
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- 1861, Auguste Scheler, Glossaire érotique de la langue française depuis son origine jusqu’à nos jours, contenant l’explication de tous les mots consacrés à l’amour, page 242:
- Mᴇɴᴛᴜʟᴇ. — Mot purement latin (mentula) signifiant le membre viril.
- Mᴇɴᴛᴜʟᴇ. — Purely Latin word (mentula) signifying the male organ.
- (rare, archaic) sea cucumber
- Synonym: holothurie
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “mentule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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