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“mostly arbitrary” I’ll say: el clítoris.
by leephillips 6y ago
“mostly arbitrary”
I’ll say: el clítoris.
- hnedeotes 6y agoC'mon, we all know it's an introverted dick.
- stevula 6y agoLatin has mentula and verpa, both feminine words referring to a male appendage.
- jan_Inkepa 6y agoGiacomo Cassanova had a bit on this: “When asked by an English poet who was at the table to read the ancient couplet Discite grammatici cur mascula nomina cunnus/ Et cur femineum mentula nomen habet [Teach us, grammarians, why vagina (cunnus) is a masculine noun/ And why penis (mentula) is feminine], Giacomo answered it with a witty pentameter of his own invention: Disce quod a domino nomina servus habet [It is because the slave always takes the name of his master].”