The story
- Latin · derived fromlapis“stone”
- English todaylapidable
From Latin lapis (“stone”). The sense "nubile" was an intellectual pun on the use of English stone to mean "testicle", potentially also influenced by lap (“female pudenda”).
Words from the same roots
Latinlapis all →
inlapidatelapidificlapidifylapidist
First known use, by meaning
- 17th–18th centuries Nubile, mature for sexual intercourse (of a woman).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.