97: penisula and penis Mar 15, 2015

Hello everyone. The words, 'peninsula', and 'penis', however much they are similar, both being an appendage protruding from a main body, and however much the words look and sound similar, the two are not related. 'Peninsula comes from Latin 'paeninsula', which gets its sound from 'paene' which means, ‘almost’ and 'insula' which means ‘island.’ 'Penis' comes from the Latin word 'penis' meaning the exact same thing as it does today. Because of its Latin '-is' ending, an acceptable plural of 'penis' is 'penes' pronounced ˈpēnēz'.