poire from pēdere) are very much alive. In Catalan, the verb is petar-se and the noun is pet. In Spanish the noun pedo as well as the verbs peerse and pedorrear are similarly derived. Portuguese peido and peidar(-se), (-dei) and Galician peido and peidar(se) are related. Italian peto is less common than scorreggia and its derived verb scorreggiare, but in Neapolitan pireto is frequently used. The English word petard, found mostly in the cliché "hoist with his own petard", comes from an early explosive device, the noise of which was likened to that of farting. English also has petomania for a musical performance of breaking intestinal wind, and petomane for the performer, after Le Pétomane, a French performer active in the early 20th century. , though rare in Latin texts, has derivates in several Romance languages, such as Romanian bășí (verb) and bășínă (noun); French vesse (noun) and vesser (verb). and : urination (infinitive ) and (infinitive ) are two variant forms of what is likely a single Latin verb meaning "to urinate", or in more vulgar usage, "to take a piss." The two verbs share a perfect or , and a past participle or . It is likely that represents a variant conjugation of with a nasal infix. In Classical Latin, the form was more common than . In some Late Latin texts a variant first conjugation form is attested. This is the form that is productive in Romance. The Classical Latin word became the accepted medical word meaning "to urinate". It is the source of the English medical term "micturition reflex". Usage Martial's epigram 3.78 uses and to make a bilingual pun: ("You pissed once off the side of a boat, Paulinus. Do you want to piss again? then you will be Palinurus.") (Note that palin is a Greek word meaning "once again". Palinurus was Aeneas's helmsman who fell overboard in a storm in the Aeneid.) The verbs and could also be used euphemistically of sexual intercourse. Horace (Satires 1.2.44), speaking of the punishments meted out to adulterers, says: ("One got thoroughly 'pissed on' (i.e. raped) by the servants; it evenhappened once that they cut off someone's balls and lecherous 'tail'with a knife.") Catullus (67.23) speaks of a father who "pissed in the lap of his own son" (), that is, had sex with his son's wife. Urine The most usual word for urine was , which is