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单词 phallus
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phallus

noun

phal·​lus ˈfa-ləs How to pronounce phallus (audio)
plural phalli ˈfa-ˌlī How to pronounce phallus (audio)
-ˌlē
or phalluses
1
: a symbol or representation of the penis
2
: penis

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Miller cannot remedy Byatt’s upper-class patronization, which relies upon a eunuch hero with no phallus, just a mermaid’s mound. Armond White, National Review, 7 Sep. 2022 Her signal motif—a headless woman—appears again, arranged in a multitude of ways: veiled, winged, hovering in the clouds, and jutting, phallus-like, from a horse. Naib Mian, The New Yorker, 1 June 2022 Ninety-seven percent of all bird species have no phallus. Rachel E. Gross, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022 Tara's Lia Fáil, a phallus-like standing stone, has a potent history, explains Lehane. CNN, 17 Mar. 2022 There was, however, an even more elemental form of digital graffiti—a bright-red cartoon phallus, right in the middle of the square. Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022 His magic flute in Mozart’s opera of that name was a three-foot phallus. New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022 As the crew batters and flattens their junk, or covers it in bees, this literal destruction of the phallus could also be a symbolic one. Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022 The phallus is the signified order in our language. Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from Latin, borrowed from Greek phallós "penis, representation of the penis," of uncertain origin

Note: The Greek word has generally been taken as an outcome of the western Indo-European etymon *bhel-, implicated in a wide range of names for things swollen or inflated, especially in Germanic (compare ball entry 1, bowl entry 1). Chantraine (Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque) suggests descent from *bhl̥-nó-, but then hesitates on the grounds that the word does not show the dialectal variation usual with resolution of *-ln-, there being no correspondent with a lengthened vowel *phālo- (compare Attic-Ionian stḗlē "pillar, stele," Lesbian and Thessalian stallā, from *stálnā). Chantraine then adduces ballíon "phallus," a word used by Herodotus that he suggests was borrowed from "Thraco-Phrygian" (thraco-phrygien), and reconstructs for phallós a form *bhol-i̯o-, a thematic derivative of *bhol-i-, in heteroclitic alteration with *bhol-(e)n-. G. Kroonen (Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic, under *bul(l)an- "bull") proffers the same Indo-European reconstruction *bhl̥-no-. However, R. Beekes (Etymological Dictionary of Greek) follows E. Furnée (Die wichtigsten konsonantischen Erscheinungen des Vorgriechischen, p. 172), who considers features of this etymon (a variant with b, in the diminutive ballíon; the variant with single l phalēt-, phalês, as well as the suffix -ēt-) as evidence of a pre-Greek substratal word. Furnée also points to the close connection of phallós with the cult of Dionysus, which likely has pre-Greek roots.

First Known Use

circa 1613, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Medical Definition

phallus

noun

phal·​lus ˈfal-əs How to pronounce phallus (audio)
plural phalli ˈfal-ˌī How to pronounce phallus (audio) -ˌē How to pronounce phallus (audio) or phalluses
1
: penis
2
: the first embryonic rudiment of the vertebrate penis or clitoris
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