culus

From Proto-Italic *kūlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-l-, zero-grade form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”) without s-mobile.

Cognates include Old Irish cúl (“bottom”), Lithuanian kẽvalas (“skin, cover”). Related to cutis (“hide”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.lus]

cūlus m (genitive cūlī); second declension

1. (vulgar, anatomy) the arse, ass (the anus and buttocks together)
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 97:

     Nōn—ita mē dĭ ament!—quicquam rēferre putāvī,
     utrumne ōs an cūlum olfacerem Aemiliō.

     I swear by the gods, I didn't think it mattered one bit,
     whether I sniffed Aemilius's mouth or his arse.

Second-declension noun.

• cūlō
• cūlōsus

• “culus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “culus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "culus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “culus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Proto-East Cushitic *ʕusl-/*ʕisl- (“heavy”). Cognate with Jiiddu eslé, Oromo ulfaataa, Afar qilsa.

culus

1. heavy

culus

1. (intransitive) to be important

• De Larajasse, E. (1897). "Somali-English and English-Somali dictionary". Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., London, pages 136