Via Nomentana the Porta Nomentana in his new set of walls. Pope Pius IV decided to move the first stretch of the road and built the Porta Pia for this purpose. There are the remains of at least one Roman bridge along the road, which is the Ponte Nomentano. Via Nomentana Via Nomentana is an ancient road of Italy, leading North-East from Rome to Nomentum (modern Mentana), a distance of . It originally bore the name "Via Ficulensis", from the old Latin village of Ficulea, about from Rome. It was subsequently extended to Nomentum, but never became an important high road, and
Latin obscenity from Latin "cauda/cōda" "tail". The Portuguese "penis", first attested in the 10th century, is thought to derive from a vulgar Latin word "*caraculum" "a little stake". The Italian "" has no obvious Latin ancestor. A number of different suggestions have been made for its origin, but none has yet gained general acceptance. The basic word for the testicles in Latin was "cōleī" (singular: "cōleus"). It appears to have had an alternative form *"cōleōnēs" (singular: "cōleō"), from which the Spanish "cojones" and other Romance forms are derived. (One late Latin source has the spelling "culiones"). The etymology of "cōleī" is obscure.