verpus

Latin

Etymology

From verpa (“penis”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯er.pus/, [ˈu̯ɛrpʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈver.pus/, [ˈvɛrpus]

Adjective

verpus (feminine verpa, neuter verpum); first/second-declension adjective (vulgar)

1. (of a penis or its owner) erect, having a hard-on with the foreskin drawn back as a result
   1. (by extension) horny (ready for a sexual act)
2. (of a penis or its owner) circumcised

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	verpus	verpa	verpum		verpī	verpae	verpa
genitive	verpī	verpae	verpī		verpōrum	verpārum	verpōrum
dative	verpō	verpae	verpō		verpīs
accusative	verpum	verpam	verpum		verpōs	verpās	verpa
ablative	verpō	verpā	verpō		verpīs
vocative	verpe	verpa	verpum		verpī	verpae	verpa

Noun

verpus m (genitive verpī); second declension (vulgar)

1. (transferred) The active partner in a sexual act, especially a homosexual one

   Synonyms: pēdīcātor, irrumātor

2. (figurative) Synonym of digitus verpus (“the middle finger”)
3. A circumcised person
   • c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenal, Satires 5.14.104:

     Quaesītum ad fontem sōlōs dēdūcere verpōs.

     To guide only the circumcised to the spring they thirst for.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	verpus	verpī
genitive	verpī	verpōrum
dative	verpō	verpīs
accusative	verpum	verpōs
ablative	verpō	verpīs
vocative	verpe	verpī

References

• Adams, James Noel (1982) The Latin sexual vocabulary‎^[1], Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13

Further reading

• “verpus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “verpus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "verpus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• verpus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.