worn out head even when provoked"). The frequentative form of is ("to thrust or shove repeatedly"). This occurs in only one place, in Catullus 56: ("Recently I caught the ward of my girlfriend'thrusting'; this boy, if it please Dione,using my 'hard one' as a weapon, I 'cut'.") The meaning of here is disputed. "Masturbating" was the interpretation of A. E. Housman;Adams (1982), p. 146. he also wanted to read as with the meaning "there and then". Others,Uden (2007), pp. 11-12. however, understand Catullus to mean that the boy was caught having sex with a girl; in which case, probably means "in a threesome", since a , according to the agricultural writer Cato the Elder, was a team of three oxen pulling a plough. Uden (2007) translates: "I just caught a kid banging his girlfriend", explaining that is a derogatory diminutive. The verb (literally "to cut" or "kill") is used as slang for homosexual penetration elsewhere in Latin literature, such as at Priapeia 26.10, a poem in which Priapus boasts that in his earlier days ("I used to 'cut' (i.e. sodomise) thieves, however strong they were"). Dione, was the mother of Aphrodite (Venus), goddess of love; but the term was also used in poetry for Venus herself. : to defecate was the chief Latin word for defecation. Etymology The word has a distinguished Indo-European parentage, which may perhaps relate to nursery words or children's slang that tends to recur across many different cultures. It would appear to be cognate with the Greek noun , kopros, meaning "excrement" (hence, coprophilia). It also exists in Germanic; in German, Swedish (kack), Scots (as both noun and verb, cack or cackie, the diminutive), whilst English "poppiecock" derives from Dutch pappe kak, "diarrhea". It exists in Turkish (kaka), Irish and Scottish Gaelic (cac), Hebrew, Arabic dialects, Hungarian (kaka), Ukrainian (какати), Russian, Lithuanian and Persian/Isfahani accent (keke). In British English, "caca" is occasionally used as childish slang for excrement (similar to American English "poop"), a word whose level of obscene loading varies from country to country; whilst in Scotland and in Ireland, "cack" is occasionally used either as a mild interjection, or as an impolite adjective to mean of poor quality, broken, nonsense. It also exists as a loan in Finnish (kakka). The derivatives of this Latin word appear in Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian (cacca), Romanian, and French. Also, in Slavic languages: kakati. Usage The verb is