Post by xxrouterxx on Jul 29, 2011 14:38:46 GMT -5
The word "penis" is taken from the Latin word for "tail." Some derive that from Indo-European *pesnis, and the Greek word ðÝïò = "penis" from Indo-European *pesos. Prior to the adoption of the Latin word in English the penis was referred to as a "yard". The Oxford English Dictionary cites an example of the word yard used in this sense from 1379,[1] and notes that in his Physical Dictionary of 1684, Steven Blankaart defined the word penis as "the Yard, made up of two nervous Bodies, the Channel, Nut, Skin, and Fore-skin, etc."[2]
As with nearly any aspect of the body involved in sexual or excretory functions, the penis is the subject of taboos, and there are many slang words and euphemisms for it, a particularly common and longstanding one being "cock".
The Latin word "phallus" (from Greek öáëëïò) is sometimes used to describe the penis, although "phallus" originally was used to describe images, pictorial or carved, of the penis.[3]
Pizzle, an archaic English word for penis, of Low German or Dutch origin, is is now used to denote the penis of a non human animal.
The adjectival form of the word penis is penile. This adjective is commonly used in describing various accessory structures of male copulatory organs found in many kinds of invertebrate animals.
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As with nearly any aspect of the body involved in sexual or excretory functions, the penis is the subject of taboos, and there are many slang words and euphemisms for it, a particularly common and longstanding one being "cock".
The Latin word "phallus" (from Greek öáëëïò) is sometimes used to describe the penis, although "phallus" originally was used to describe images, pictorial or carved, of the penis.[3]
Pizzle, an archaic English word for penis, of Low German or Dutch origin, is is now used to denote the penis of a non human animal.
The adjectival form of the word penis is penile. This adjective is commonly used in describing various accessory structures of male copulatory organs found in many kinds of invertebrate animals.
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