penisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: pē'nis
  • (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.nɪs/, [ˈpʰiː.nɪs]
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.nɪs/, [ˈpʰi.nɪs]
• 韻: -iːnɪs

名詞

penis (複数形 penises または penes)

1. (anatomy) The male reproductive organ used for sexual intercourse that in the human male and some other mammals is also used for urination; the tubular portion of the 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.

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129:

     The penis is the perfectly obvious and natural symbol of instantaneous time.

   • 1994 January 24, Lisa Kemler, Newsweek, page 19:

     A life is more valuable than a penis.

   • 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.

   • 2016 October 16, “Third Parties”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

     Okay, hold on, because “stimulus package of your dreams” sounds like how Paul Krugman describes his penis.

使用する際の注意点

The hyperforeign Latinate penii is occasionally used as the plural.

同意語

• tarse, pintle
• See also Thesaurus:penis

上位語

• intromittent organ (biology)
• primordial phallus, genital tubercle
• genitals

Meronyms

• glans

派生語

関連する語

• penectomy
• penile

参考

• clitoris
• erection
• member
• phallic
• phallus

アナグラム

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

Latin

語源

From Proto-Italic *peznis, from Proto-Indo-European *pes-ni-s, from *pes-. Cognate with Ancient Greek πέος (péos), Sanskrit पसस् (pásas), 古期英語 fæsl.

発音

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

名詞

pēnis m (genitive pēnis); third declension

1. (archaic) tail

   Synonym: cauda

2. (anatomy) the penis, male sexual organ
3. (figuratively) lust
4. genitive singular of pēnis
5. vocative singular of pēnis

語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

派生語

派生した語

参照

• 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