Noun: phallus
| Singular | phallus |
| Plural | phalli; phalluses |
Sample Sentences
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The phallus had power to subdue the attacks of demons and the Evil Eye[.] [1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 159:]
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If the priests of Diana of Ephesus castrated themselves and offered their genitals on the altar, it was because the phallus was the symbol of the dying body. [1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129:]
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The initiated member gave a gift of a coin for the goddess, for which he received in turn a phallus and some salt. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 86:]
Nouns inflected like phallus
renal calculus,
pylorus,
prolapsus,
parahippocampal gyrus,
hyperradius,
succubus,
scarabaeus,
colossus,
eucalyptus,
papyrus,
disfocus,
polypus,
phallus,
solidus,
silurus,
lenticular nucleus,
dinosaurus,
chorepiscopus,
ankylosaurus,
fusiform gyrus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin phallus (“membrum virile, phallus, or a figure thereof”), from Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós). See: Latin Nouns '
phallus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
φαλλός'.
Verbs referencing "phallus"
Finnish Nouns
fallos.