el
masculine
/ˈkulo/
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Translation
bottom, backside (vulgar/informal)
Word origin
From Latin culus ('the backside, the bottom'). The same root underlies the English borrowing below.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- culus
- English cognates
- cul-de-sac
Grammar
Gendermasculine
Pluralculos
Examples
Ponte, .
Get up, you are going to sit on your backside.
.
He fell on his backside on the kitchen floor.
.
That hard seat makes my backside ache after hours.
barro.
The boy plonked himself down in the mud.
, cercano.
He lives in the middle of nowhere, two hours from the nearest village.
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