culus

See also: -culus and cülus

Latin

Etymology

    Uncertain, though most likely Related to Proto-Celtic *kūlos (“posterior”). The term is traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-lo-s, from *(s)kewH- (“cover, conceal, hide, skin”). However, de Vaan, following the LIV, rejects the existence of this root, and prefers to reconstruct a Proto-Indo-European *kuH-lo-s, from *kewh₂- (“to strike, cleave”) (which he reconstructs as *keh₂w-; he also adduces Proto-Germanic *hūdiz (“skin, hide”) and Latin cutis (“skin”), both generally derived from *(s)kewH-, to *kewh₂-,[1] and appears to implicitly consider *(s)kewH- a mis-reconstructed form of *kewh₂-.[2]

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    cūlus m (genitive cūlī); second declension

    1. (vulgar, anatomy) the arse, ass (the anus and buttocks together)
      in Orcī cūlum incidās ― may you fall into Orcus' butthole
      • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 97:
        Nōn—ita mē dĭ ament!—quicquam rēferre putāvī,
        utrumne ōs an cūlum olfacerem Aemiliō.
        I swear by the gods, I didn't think it mattered one bit,
        whether I sniffed Aemilius's mouth or his arse.

    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative cūlus cūlī
    genitive cūlī cūlōrum
    dative cūlō cūlīs
    accusative cūlum cūlōs
    ablative cūlō cūlīs
    vocative cūle cūlī

    Synonyms

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Aragonese: culo
    • Aromanian: cur
    • Asturian: culu
    • Catalan: cul
    • Corsican: culu
    • Dalmatian: čol
    • French: cul, culotte (see there for further descendants)
    • Friulian: cûl
    • Ido: kulo
    • Istro-Romanian: cur
    • Italian: culo
    • Lombard: cüü
    • Megleno-Romanian: cur
    • Occitan: cuol
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: cuu, cũu, cu
      • Fala: cu
      • Galician: cu
      • Portuguese: cu
    • Old Spanish: culo
    • Romanian: cur
    • Romansh: tgil, tgigl, chül
    • Sardinian: colu, cu, culu
    • Sicilian: culu
    • Venetan: cuło, cul
    • Walloon: cou

    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “cūlus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 151
    2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “cutis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 160

    Further reading

    • “culus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “culus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "culus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “culus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

    Somali

    Etymology

    Unknown. Cognate with Maay ulus, Rendille h'ulees (“heaviness”), Jiiddu eslé, Baiso -'isil, Arbore ilsa, Daasanach ilish, Oromo ulfaataa, Konso ulsuma (“mass”), Afar qilsa, Saho cilis.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ʕùˈlús/

    Adjective

    culús (plural culculus, nominalized culays, factitive cuslee)

    1. heavy
    2. important

    References

    • “culus”, in Qaamuuska Af-Soomaaliga, 2012
    • Reinisch, Leo (1902), Die Somali-Sprache (in German), volume 2, Wien, Austria, page 58
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