cul

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Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin cūlus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

cul m (plural culs)

  1. (anatomy) bottom, behind, butt
  2. (vulgar) anus
  3. (figurative) the bottom, rear (of an object)

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Cornish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Brythonic *kʉl, from Proto-Celtic *koilos (“thin”) (compare Old Irish cáel, Welsh cul).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

cul

  1. narrow

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Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

cul

  1. second-person singular imperative of culit

French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Middle French cul, from Old French cul, from Latin cūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-l-, zero-grade without s-mobile form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

cul m (plural culs)

  1. (anatomy, vulgar) butt, bum, ass, arse
    • 2008 [1907], Guillaume Apollinaire, chapter I, in Alexis Lykiard, transl., Les Onze mille verges [The Eleven Thousand Rods] (fiction):
      En effet, le prince Vibescu marchait, comme on croit à Bucharest que marchent les Parisiens ; c’est-à-dire à tous petits pas pressés et en tortillant le cul.
      Indeed, Prince Vibescu used to walk as Bucharest folk believe Parisians walk, that's to say with rapid little footsteps and wriggling his arse.
    • 1967 [1907], Guillaume Apollinaire, chapter VI, in David B. Lewis + Wiktionary, transl., Les Onze mille verges [Debauched Hospodar] (fiction):
      Ce fut un étalage admirable de culs de toutes les nationalités, car ce bordel modèle possédait des putains de toutes races. Le cul en forme de poire de la Frisonne contrastait avec les culs rebondis des Parisiennes, les fesses merveilleuses des Anglaises, les postérieurs carrés des Scandinaves et les culs tombants des Catalanes.
      This was an admirable display of arses of all nationalities, as this model whorehouse held hookers of all races. The Frisian girl’s pear-shaped arse contrasted with the plump Parisians’, with the marvelous buttocks of the English, the square behinds of the Scandinavians, and the plunging arses of the Catalans.
  2. (vulgar) anus; arsehole; asshole
    • 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage
      Elle a treize ans et son frère quinze; ils vont chez un homme qui contraint le frère à foutre sa sœur, et qui fout alternativement en cul tantôt le garçon, tantôt la fille, pendant qu’ils sont aux prises ensemble.
      She's thirteen and her brother's fifteen; they go to a man who forces the brother to fuck his sister, and who fucks in the ass, in turn, the boy and the girl, while they both struggle together.
  3. (figurative) the bottom, rear (of an object)
  4. (informal) sex; sexual intercourse
    Le cul mène le monde.
    Sex rules the world.
  5. (informal, France) good luck or fortune
    Ils ont du cul.
    They are lucky.
  6. (France, slang) roach (butt of a marijuana cigarette)

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Anagrams[edit]

Ladin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cūlus (“anus”), from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-l-.

Noun[edit]

cul m (plural cui)

  1. (Gherdëina, vulgar slang) ass, bottom, buttocks, butt

Lombard[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • cuu (Milanese classical orthography)
  • cüü, cüül (Ticinese and Western modern orthographies)
  • cül (Eastern modern orthographies)

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cūlus (“anus”), from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-l-.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kyːl/, [kyː(l)] (Western)
  • IPA(key): /kyːl/, [ky(ː)l] (Eastern)

Noun[edit]

cul m (plural cui)

  1. (vulgar, anatomy) butt, arse, bum

Middle Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Old French coille, from Latin cōleus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

cul m

  1. a testicle, male genital ball
  2. a vegetal reproductive bulb
  3. a marble (for games)
  4. the male member, penis

Descendants[edit]

  • Dutch: kul

Further reading[edit]

  • “cul”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “cul”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Middle French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French, from Latin cūlus.

Noun[edit]

cul m (plural culs or culs)

  1. (vulgar) arse; ass; anus

Descendants[edit]

Middle Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Only attested in glosses. Maybe from Proto-Celtic *kʷolu- (“wheel”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn”). Compare words derived from the same root: Latin colus (“distaff”), Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “axis”), Old Church Slavonic коло (kolo, “wheel”).[1][2]

Noun[edit]

cul (gender unknown, genitive unattested ?, no plural)

  1. chariot, or some part of the chariot, most likely a wheel

References[edit]

  1. ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1959–96) Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page C-283
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “Kʷolu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

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Mirandese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Contraction[edit]

cul m (feminine cula, masculine plural culs, feminine plural culas)

  1. Contraction of cun l (“with the”).

Venetian[edit]

Noun[edit]

cul m (plural culi)

  1. Alternative form of cuło

Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Brythonic *kʉl, Proto-Celtic *koilos (“thin”) (compare Old Irish cáel).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

cul (feminine singular cul, plural culion, equative culed, comparative culach, superlative culaf)

  1. narrow

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Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cul gul nghul chul
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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