Oral Sex Etymology

[Lionel Mandrake]

For your amusement and edification, here are the etymologies of two clinical terms whose meanings are already familiar to you:

"fellatio"
ORIGIN late 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Latin fellare ‘to suck.’

"cunnilingus"
ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from Latin, from cunnus ‘vulva’ + lingere ‘lick.’

There is a vulgar word (which I won't repeat) that you might think was also derived from "cunnus", but the facts are otherwise:
ORIGIN Middle English : of Germanic origin; related to Norwegian and Swedish dialect "kunta", and Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, and Danish dialect "kunte".

[pipi_k]

1. I wonder what

Kunta Kinte thought of his name...

[Lionel Mandrake]

6. I'm not going there...n/t

[davsand]

24. The cat swears Chaucer is his slave name. His real name in Kunta Kitteh. n/t

[jakeXT]

2. Latin could have been more interesting in school

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_profanity

Graffitti from Pompeii

Each inscription begins with a reference to where it was found (region.insula.door number).  The second number is the reference to the publication of the inscription in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Volume 4.

...

III.5.3 (on the wall in the street); 8898: Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog
http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm

[Lionel Mandrake]

4. One whorehouse in Pompeii had an especially rich assortment of graffiti.

I once went to a talk by a woman who did her thesis on those graffiti. She said that it was best to translate the obscene Latin into obscene English.

Her talk was well received!

[Ian David]

9. I visited the Pompei exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston.

I made sure I got extra photos of the dirtier stuff.

I especially liked the threesome in a boat drawing.

[Lionel Mandrake]

12. Let's see those photos, please,

especially the threesome in a boat.

[jakeXT]

13. Probably a bed.. I assume

[Ian David]

16. I saw that documentary! "Pompeii: Sex with Ancient Aliens?" n/t

[Ian David]

15. Here you go.

Since this was deemed appropriate for all audiences by The Museum of Science, it must also be appropriate for both DU and PhotoBucket:

[Lionel Mandrake]

18. I can just hear the conversation at the museum.

"Mommy, what are those people doing in the boat?"

"Shh .. I'll tell you later, sweetie."

But seriously, it's not entirely clear what they are doing. The lighter skinned figure in the middle is presumably a woman. Is she smiling for the camera? She's too far from the guy on the left to be sucking his cock, although maybe she's getting ready to do so. The guy on the right seems to be penetrating her, but which orifice? It could be either anal or vaginal sex.

And why the fuck are they doing this in a boat? There must have been a more comfortable and private place for sex.

[Ian David]

19. The caption pretty much explains that yes, this is a sexual act.

Also, the digital audio tour comes in two versions-- adult and family.

If you give the child the little digital headset gizmo, it will only read the "family" exhibits and descriptions.

That mural was marked only for the "adult" audio tour.

[Kali]

21. early waterbed

[Lionel Mandrake]

23. Heh heh.

We've made considerable progress in waterbeds since then,
but sex is just the same as it ever was.

[MiddleFingerMom]

29. That act is, as they say, like American beer - fucking close to water.

[Lionel Mandrake]

34. LOL.

[Odin2005]

3. The Romans had a swear word "fellator" meaning "cock-sucker"

[Lionel Mandrake]

5. fellator, fellatoris

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was rare according to William Whitaker's Words
http://archives.nd.edu/words.html

Since the noun is third declension, it could easily be either masculine or feminine. Whitaker says masculine, but my guess is that it would be the same gender as that of the person performing the act.

Update: I was wrong...

According to both William Whitaker's Words and the Oxford Latin Dictionary,
a female cock sucker is fellatrix, fellatricis.

[Ian David]

10. Fellator sounds like a superhero name. Especially if you put the emphasis on the "a." n/t

[Lionel Mandrake]

11. Faster than a horny teenager,

more powerful than a rutting bison,
able to jump a herd of sheep in a single hour.

[retread]

45. That's why happy Romans were called

Gladiator!

[Boops]

7. This thread is making me horny

You will owe me a new keyboard soon.

[Lionel Mandrake]

8. I'd recommend having sex with another person,

not with a keyboard.

[rug]

14. This is not a sex thread.

It is a cunning linguist thread.

[Lionel Mandrake]

20. Cunning linguists are a lot of fun,

but after a while my jaw gets tired.

[retread]

17. You have brought this subject to a head.

[Lionel Mandrake]

22. This can be a deeply spurtual experience.

[Denninmi]

25. "Colonel Angus can be very messy"

Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph, Chris Parnell, and guest host Christopher Walken as the title character. This skit from Saturday Night Live seems very appropriate for this thread.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/665455/

[Lionel Mandrake]

26. Yes, but the women can't seem to get enough of him.

[MiddleFingerMom]

27. The etymology of the word etymology is particularly apropos in your usage here.

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From the Greek "etyseus" -- to engage in oral foreplay with one's S.O.
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And from the Latin "eewwology" -- to apologize that it only lasted for 7 seconds before you made a face and quit
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And they told me that majoring in Classic Languages would never amount to anything useful.
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[WCGreen]

28. It's so popular, the Cranberries wrote a song....

Yes, he has to linger in order to keep her wrapped around his finger...

[kentauros]

30. art

Erotica en la Historia

I think y'all will like that site

[RedCloud]

31. What about "lickety split"?

on edit: nervously mispelled lickety

[rurallib]

32. It is the educational side of DU that I enjoy most

Often answering questions that had occurred but then been forgotten.
Thank you Lionel for a post that does not fellate in any way.

[Lionel Mandrake]

35. You're welcome.

Non fellavi, sed fellatus sum ('I haven't sucked, but I've been sucked').

That makes me a pervert, according to the English translation of the verb 'fello, fellare' in the (slightly bowdlerized) Oxford Latin Dictionary.

Well, maybe half a pervert.

[LynneSin]

33. I read where fuck came from "Found under carnal knowledge"

or so i was told

[Lionel Mandrake]

36. In olden times, if you were "found under carnal knowledge",

you were FUCKED!

[crunch60]

37. FUCK Fornication Of Unusual Carnal Knowledge

[Bucky]

39. Fornication Of Unitarian Carnal Kindness

It's quite sweet with a UU

[Bucky]

38. No, fuck goes way back to Anglo-Saxon roots. It's not an acronym.

[Lionel Mandrake]

42. Right.

The German verb "ficken" is practically the same word as "fuck". This is no coincidence.

[Bucky]

40. The Latin and Germanic terms almost certainly share IndoEuropean roots

If the Latin and Germanic words for the same body part are "cunnus" and "kunte", then you're sure to be looking at the same source word further back in linguistic development.

[Lionel Mandrake]

41. Maybe so,

but the editors of the OED don't agree with you.

Checking Big Liddel, I could find no cognate in Greek.

It would be interesting to know if there is a cognate in Sanskrit.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

43. Kunte Rockne: "Let's win one for the Gipper."

The greats never die, they just get greater.

[Lionel Mandrake]

44. Ronald Raygun kept repeating that phrase during his campaigns.

He keeps getting more and more popular among conservatives. They worship him as a god at think tanks like Stanford's Hoover Institution. More and more buildings across the nation are named after Raygun.

Here's a picture of the new Ronald Raygun Sewage Treatment Facility at some piddling town or other.



Note the elegant architecture reflected by the sludge pool.