verpus

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Latin

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Etymology

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From verpa (penis).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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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

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First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative verpus verpa verpum verpī verpae verpa
Genitive verpī verpae verpī verpōrum verpārum verpōrum
Dative verpō verpō verpīs
Accusative verpum verpam verpum verpōs verpās verpa
Ablative verpō verpā verpō verpīs
Vocative verpe verpa verpum verpī verpae verpa

Noun

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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 CEc. 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

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Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative verpus verpī
Genitive verpī verpōrum
Dative verpō verpīs
Accusative verpum verpōs
Ablative verpō verpīs
Vocative verpe verpī

References

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

Further reading

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  • 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.