The word in mediaeval Latin equivalent to Greek "kleitoris" (clitoris) -- Sappho in Early Modern England (p. 40). The term occurs in classic Latin literature in the expression "tentiginis uoluae" (tentigo of the vulva) -- Latin Sexual Vocabulary (p. 103). Specifically, the "tentigo" of two women, Philaenis (mentioned by Martialis) and the wife of emperor Claudius (mentioned by Juvenalis) achieved literary renown -- Love between Women (p. 165).
This term "tentigo" "fell into disuse by 1550" -- Middle English Medical Terminology.

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