The story
- Latin · derived frompudenda“that whereof one ought to feel shame”
- English todaypudendum
From Latin pudenda (“that whereof one ought to feel shame”), substantive use of the neuter plural gerundive of pudet (“it shames”); in Latin the usage in the plural form (to mean external genitalia), was far more common than the singular form, as is also the case in English.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.