podex

See also: Podex

English

Etymology

From Latin pōdex.

Noun

podex (plural podexes or podices)

1. (anatomy, rare) The anus, rectum, or buttocks of a human.
   • 1953, Jack Woodford, Writer's Cramp, page 35:

     If these native babes went around with their podexes exposed they wouldn't have any because the mosquitoes would eat them off.

2. (zoology, rare) The rear end of any animal.
   • 1942, Fabricius (ab Aquapendente), Howard Bernhardt Adelmann (translator), The Embryological Treatises of Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente (page 229)

     Ligament which stretches over the surface of the uterus, running obliquely from the podex to the raceme.

Latin

Etymology

An ablaut formation from Proto-Indo-European *pesd- (“fart”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.deks/, [ˈpoːd̪ɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.deks/, [ˈpɔːd̪eks]

Noun

pōdex m (genitive pōdicis); third declension

1. (anatomy) anus, rectum, fundament
   • c. 30 BCE, Horace, Epodes 8:

     […] hietque turpis inter aridas natis podex […]

     […] and an anus yawning between arid buttocks […]

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pōdex	pōdicēs
genitive	pōdicis	pōdicum
dative	pōdicī	pōdicibus
accusative	pōdicem	pōdicēs
ablative	pōdice	pōdicibus
vocative	pōdex	pōdicēs

References

• “podex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “podex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• podex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.