Definitions
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- noun archaic Penile
erection ortumescence ; especially, pathological erection (priapism ).
Etymologies
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From Latin tentīgō ("lust"), from tendō ("stretch").
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Examples
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Perhaps it was seeing the most desirous bachelor in the pueblo with his tentigo bobbing in midair.
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Galen and Soranus called it nymphê because it is covered as a bride is veiled, while the old Latin name was _tentigo_, from its power of entering into erection, and _columella_, the little pillar, from its shape.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
sionnach commented on the word tentigo
excessive lust; inordinate desire for sex.
January 2, 2008