penis

penis

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English

Etymology

From late 17th century. Learned borrowing from Latin pēnis (“tail, penis”), from Proto-Indo-European *pes- (“penis”). Displaced native English pintle, tarse.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pē'nis
    • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpiː.nɪs/, [ˈpʰiː.nɪs]
    • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpi.nɪs/, [ˈpʰi.nɪs]
  • Rhymes: -iːnɪs
  • Hyphenation: pe‧nis

Noun

penis (plural penises or penes)

  2. (anatomy) The male erectile reproductive organ used for sexual intercourse that in the human male and other placental mammals is also used for urination; the tubular portion of the external male genitalia (excluding the scrotum).
    The female clitoris is homologous to the male penis.
    • Robin Williams:
      See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
    • 1998, Collecting Mark Twain: A History and Three New Paths, Kevin Mac Donnell, Firsts Magazine, Inc.
      By early November, the sheets of HUCK FINN were being forwarded for binding, and within a week or two it was discovered that the illustration at page 283 had been altered in the master plate to make it appear as if Uncle Silas was exposing his penis. Twain would be amused to know that this may be the first time the word "penis" has ever been used to describe the alteration to this plate; the euphemisms and delicate phrasings employed by previous bibliographers to avoid stating the obvious are impressive.
  3. (zoology) A similar erectile sexual organ present in the cloacas of male amniotes.

Usage notes

  • The hyperforeign Latinate penii is occasionally used as the plural.

Synonyms

  • tarse, pintle
  • See also Thesaurus:penis

Hypernyms

  • intromittent organ (biology)
  • genital tubercle (glans penis and most of penile shaft), urogenital sinus (penile urethra), urogenital folds (underside of penis) - embryological precursors
  • external genitalia

Meronyms

  • glans

Derived terms

Related terms

  • penectomy
  • penile

Translations

See also

  • erection
  • member
  • phallic
  • phallus

Anagrams

  • Snipe, spine, Ipsen, peins, epsin, snipe, pines, Pines, Espin

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pēnis.

Pronunciation

Noun

penis (plural penisse)

  1. (anatomy) penis

Derived terms

  • penisbeen

Albanian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pēnis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛnis]

Noun

penis m (plural penisë, definite penisi, definite plural penisët)

  1. (anatomy) penis

Declension

Synonyms

  • luc m (childish)
  • karuc m (colloquial, slightly vulgar)
  • kar m (vulgar)
  • dërrasë f (vulgar)
  • hu m (vulgar)

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pēnis (“tail, penis”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpenis]
  • Hyphenation: pe‧nis

Noun

penis (definite accusative penisi, plural penislər)

  1. penis

Declension

Synonyms

  • (slang) duduş
  • (vulgar) sik

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɛ.nis]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈpe.nis]

Verb

penis

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of penar

Czech

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pēnis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛnɪs]
  • Rhymes: -ɪs

Noun

penis m inan

  1. (anatomy) penis
    Synonyms: pyj, šulin, čurák, péro, pinďour, pindík, pinďa, pinďourek, bimbas, lulánek, pohlavní úd

Declension

References

Further reading

  • “penis”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “penis”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “penis”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Danish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin penis (“tail, penis”), from Proto-Indo-European *pes- (“penis”).

Noun

penis c (singular definite penissen, plural indefinite penisser)

  1. (anatomy) penis

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • penishoved n

References

  • “penis” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pēnis (“tail, penis”), from Proto-Indo-European *pes-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpeː.nɪs/
  • Hyphenation: pe‧nis

Noun

penis m (plural penissen, diminutive penisje n)

  1. penis
    Synonyms: lid, pik, piemel, genotsknots, lul, leuter, fluit, tampeloeres, snikkel, knuppel, plasser, tamp, pieterman, piel

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • peins

Esperanto

Verb

penis

  1. past of peni

Estonian

Noun

penis

  1. inessive singular of peni

Finnish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pēnis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpenis/, [ˈpe̞nis̠]
  • IPA(key): /ˈpeːnis/, [ˈpe̞ːnis̠] (dated or jocular)
  • Rhymes: -enis, -eːnis
  • Hyphenation(key): pe‧nis

Noun

penis

  1. (anatomy) penis
    Synonym: siitin

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “penis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • pesin, sepin

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pēnis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛnɪs]
  • Hyphenation: pè‧nis

Noun

pènis (first-person possessive penisku, second-person possessive penismu, third-person possessive penisnya)

  1. (anatomy) penis

Synonyms

  • (penis): anu, zakar (dated), burung (childish), titit (childish, mildly vulgar), kontol (vulgar), peler (more vulgar), pelir

Further reading

  • “penis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

penis (plural penises)

  1. penis

Latin

Etymology

Traditionally derived from Proto-Italic *peznis, from Proto-Indo-European *pes-ni-s, from *pes- (“penis”), and compared with Ancient Greek πέος (péos), Sanskrit पसस् (pásas), Old English fæsl. However, de Vaan is skeptical of this, and instead reconstructs a Proto-Italic form *petsnis, taking the original meaning as "tail" and "penis, male sexual organ" as secondary, and connects the word to penna (“wing, feather”); see there for discussion of phonetic conflation between the two words.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpeː.nis/, [ˈpeːnɪs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpe.nis/, [ˈpɛːnis]

Noun

pēnis m (genitive pēnis); third declension

  1. (archaic) tail
    Synonym: cauda
  2. (anatomy) penis (male sexual organ)
    Synonyms: (euphemistic) membrum virile, (vulgar) mentula, (vulgar) mūtō
    Hyponym: (vulgar) verpa
  3. (figuratively) lust

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

Further reading

  • penis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • penis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Latvian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pēnis.

Noun

penis m (2 declension)

  1. penis

Declension

Synonyms

  • dzimumloceklis

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin penis.

Noun

penis m (definite singular penisen, indefinite plural peniser, definite plural penisene)

  1. (anatomy) a penis

References

  • “penis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin penis.

Noun

penis m (definite singular penisen, indefinite plural penisar, definite plural penisane)

  1. (anatomy) a penis

References

  • “penis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin penis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛ.ɲis/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɲis
  • Syllabification: pe‧nis

Noun

penis m inan

  1. penis
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prącie

Declension

Further reading

  • penis in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • penis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Alternative forms

  • пенис (Moldovan Cyrillic spelling)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin penis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpenis]

Noun

penis n (plural penisuri)

  1. (anatomy) penis
    Synonyms: (slang) miel; (slang) puță; (slang) sculă

Declension

Synonyms

  • pulă (vulgar, slang)

Related terms

  • erecție
  • prepuț
  • testicul
  • vagin

Further reading

  • penis in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin penis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pěːnis/
  • Hyphenation: pe‧nis

Noun

pénis m (Cyrillic spelling пе́нис)

  1. (anatomy) penis
    Tijelo penisa je građeno od dva kavernozna i spužvastog tkiva. Ove dvije vrste tkiva čine erektilno tijelo penisa. (Ijekavian)
    Telo penisa je građeno od dva kavernozna i spužvastog tkiva. Ove dve vrste tkiva čine erektilno telo penisa. (Ekavian)
    The body of the penis is formed of two cavernous and spongy tissues. These two forms of tissues form the erectile body of the penis.

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pēnis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpenis]

Noun

penis m inan

  1. (anatomy) penis

Declension

References

  • “penis”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Slovene

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pēnis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /péːnis/

Noun

pẹ̑nis m inan

  1. (anatomy) penis

Inflection

Further reading

  • “penis”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Swedish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pēnis.

Noun

penis c

  1. (anatomy) penis

Usage notes

Anatomical terms for body parts are sometimes uninflected in the definite in medical jargon (and language riffing on medical jargon), being treated similar to proper nouns. See the declension table.

Declension

Derived terms

See also

  • kuk (has synonyms ordered by register)
  • boll
  • erektion
  • fallos
  • könshår (“pubic hair”)
  • ollon (“glans”)
  • pung (“scrotum”)
  • skaft (“shaft”)
  • svällkropp (“corpus cavernosum”)
  • testikel (“testicle”)
  • urinrör (“urethra”)
  • vagina

References

  • penis in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • penis in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • penis in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  • Svensk MeSH
  • Fula Ordboken

Turkish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pēnis (“tail, penis”), from Proto-Indo-European *pes- (“penis”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpenis]
  • Hyphenation: pe‧nis

Noun

penis (definite accusative penisi, plural penisler)

  1. penis
    Onun penisinde aşağı doğru bir eğrilik var.
    His penis has a downward curvature.

Declension

Derived terms

  • penissiz

Further reading

  • “penis”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

Volapük

Noun

penis

  1. accusative plural of pen

Welsh

Etymology

From English penis.

Noun

penis m

  1. penis
    Synonym: pidyn

Mutation

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “penis”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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