phallos
English edit
Noun edit
phallos (plural phalli)
- Alternative form of phallus
- 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 14, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Florence, Italy: […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html)[1], Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 11 November 2020:
- The sun through the low window sent in a beam that lit up his thighs and slim belly and the erect phallos rising darkish and hot-looking from the little cloud of vivid gold-red hair.
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpʰal.loːs/, [ˈpʰälːʲoːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfal.los/, [ˈfälːos]
Noun edit
phallōs m
- accusative plural of phallus (“phallus; penis; artistic representation of an erect penis as icon of male sexuality, potency, fertility”)