penis – English noun declension

English noun forms of penis

Noun: penis
Singularpenis
Pluralpenises; penes

Sample Sentences

  • The female clitoris is homologous to the male penis.
  • See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
  • The penis is the perfectly obvious and natural symbol of instantaneous 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:]
  • A life is more valuable than a penis. [1994 January 24, Lisa Kemler, Newsweek, page 19:]
  • 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.
  • Okay, hold on, because “stimulus package of your dreams” sounds like how Paul Krugman describes his penis. [2016 October 16, “Third Parties”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *pes-
3. Proto-Indo-European *pes-ni-s
4. Proto-Italic *peznis
5. Latin pēnislbor.
6. English penis
7. Learned borrowing from Latin pēnis, from Proto-Italic *peznis, from Proto-Indo-European *pes-ni-s, from *pes- (“penis”). First attested in the late 17th century. Doublet of pencil. Displaced native English pintle, tarse, pillicock. See: English Nouns 'pintle'.