English abbreviation dictionary - clitoris
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(clitorises) The clitoris is a part at the front of a woman’s sexual organs where she can feel sexual pleasure. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun (plural ~es; also clitorides) Etymology: New Latin, from Greek kleitoris Date: 1615 a small erectile organ at the anterior or ventral part of the vulva homologous to the penis • clitoral also clitoric adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. a small erectile part of the female genitals at the upper end of the vulva. Derivatives clitoral adj. Etymology: mod.L f. Gk kleitoris ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1615, coined in Mod.L., from Gk. kleitoris, a diminutive, but the exact sense is uncertain. Older sources list Gk. kleiein, defined as "to sheathe" [Weekley] "to shut" [O.E.D., with a question mark]. The related noun form kleis has a second meaning of "a key, a latch or hook (to close a door)" which seems to suit the anatomical definition. Wooden pegs were the original keys; a connection also revealed in L. clovis "nail" and claudere "to shut." Some medical sources give a supposed Gk. verb kleitoriazein "to touch or titillate lasciviously, to tickle," lit. "to be inclined (toward pleasure)" (cf. Ger. slang der Kitzler "clitoris," lit. "the tickler"), related to Gk. kleitys, a variant of klitys "side of a hill," related to klinein "to slope," from the same root as climax. But many sources take kleitoris literally as Gk. "little hill." The It. anatomist Mateo Renaldo Colombo (1516-1559), professor at Padua, claimed to have discovered it (De re anatomica, 1559, p. 243). He called it amor Veneris, vel dulcedo "the love or sweetness of Venus." It had been known to women since much earlier, of course. Slang abbreviation clit first attested 1960s. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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