podex

From Latin pōdex.

podex (plural podexes or podices)

1. (anatomy, rare) The anus, rectum, or buttocks of a human.
   • 1953, Jack Woodford, Writer's Cramp, page 35:

     If these native babes went around with their podexes exposed they wouldn't have any because the mosquitoes would eat them off.

2. (zoology, rare) The rear end of any animal.
   • 1942, Fabricius (ab Aquapendente), Howard Bernhardt Adelmann (translator), The Embryological Treatises of Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente (page 229)

     Ligament which stretches over the surface of the uterus, running obliquely from the podex to the raceme.

An ablaut formation from Proto-Indo-European *pesd- (“fart”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpoː.dɛks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔː.d̪eks]

pōdex m (genitive pōdicis); third declension

1. (anatomy) anus, rectum, fundament
   • c. 30 BCE, Horace, Epodes 8:

     […] hietque turpis inter aridas natis podex […]

     […] and an anus yawning between arid buttocks […]

Third-declension noun.

• “podex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “podex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• podex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.