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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?recti?, ?recti?nis, noun of action from perfect passive participle ?rectus, from verb erig?, from prefix ?- (“out of”) + reg?, + action suffix -i?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

erection (countable and uncountable, plural erections)

1. (uncountable) The act of building or putting up or together of something.

   Synonyms: building, construction

2. (countable) Anything erected or built.

   Synonyms: building, construction

   • 1948, George Stephen Baker, Ship Design, Resistance and Screw Propulsion (page 194)

     If any serious number of deck erections have been left unfaired, these percentages will be too low.

3. (uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:erection

   • 1997, Alan Hyde, Bodies of Law, Princeton University Press (1997), ?ISBN, page 175:

     I think that the case also demonstrates some singular aspects of the penis as a narrator of tales, specifically the way in which the erection of a penis falls outside a man's conscious control and therefore threatens a carefully constructed master legal narrative in which bodily self-control graphically represents the self-government contemplated by a democratic legal society.

   • 2006, Lori Marso, Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women, Routledge (2006), ?ISBN, unnumbered pages (quoting Simone Beauvoir):

     There are men who say they cannot bear to show themselves naked before women unless in a state of erection; and indeed through erection the flesh becomes activity, potency, […]

   • 2007, Edward J. Behrend-Martinez, Unfit for Marriage: Impotent Spouses on Trial in the Basque Region of Spain, 1650-1750, University of Nevada Press (2007), ?ISBN, page 14:

     A marriage was only consummated via erection, penetration, and insemination intra vas.

4. (uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
   • 2008, Robert Crooks & Karla Baur, Our Sexuality, Thomson Wadsworth (2008), ?ISBN, page 163:

     Older men typically require longer periods of time to achieve erection and reach orgasm.

   • 2011, Alan L. Rubin, Diabetes for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc. (2008), ?ISBN, page 104:

     A very rare complication is priapism, where the penis maintains its erection for many hours.

5. (countable) A penis or clitoris that is erect.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:erect penis

   Hyponyms: priapism, permaboner, death erection, morning wood

   • 2002, Marguerite Crump, No B.O.!: The Head-to-Toe Book of Hygiene for Preteens, Free Spirit Publishing (2005), ?ISBN, page 85:

     The surge of hormones during puberty means you might have lots of erections, even when you don't want them—like during school.

   • 2006, Abha Dawesar, That Summer in Paris, Anchor Books (2007), ?ISBN, page 259:

     Prem was sure everyone could see his erection through his pants, everyone but Maya, who he had been careful to keep to his side all the time

   • 2007, Ken Follett, World Without End, Dutton (2007), ?ISBN, page 244:

     He kissed her again, this time with a long, moist kiss that gave him an erection.

Related terms

• erect
• erector

Translations

Further reading

• erection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• neoteric

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?recti?, ?recti?nem.

Noun

erection f (plural erections)

1. erection (of a building, etc.)
2. erection (penile)

Descendants

• French: érection

References

• erection on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

English

Etymology

From Latin tent?g? (“lust”), from tend? (“stretch”).

Noun

tentigo (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Penile erection or tumescence; especially, pathological erection (priapism).
   • 1817, John Elliotson (translator), J. Fred. Blumenenbach (Latin author), The Institutions of Physiology, third Latin edition, second English edition, E. Cox and Son, page 284:

     The emission of semen is excited by its abundance in the vesicles and by sexual instinct: it is effected by the violent tentigo which prevents the course of the urine, and, as it were, throws the way open for the semen; by a kind of spasmodic contraction of the vesiculæ seminales, […]

   • 1833, unnamed translators, James Gregory (Latin author), Conspectus Medicinæ Theoreticæ: Or, A View of the Theory of Medicine, Second Edition, Stirling & Kenneg, page 180:

     Sometimes an obstinate and painful erection takes place, either without appetite, or with great and insatiable desire. To this rare kind of disorder are given the several names, tentigo, priapism, satyriasis. […] that slighter tentigo that is often felt on awakening, by persons otherwise in the best health […]

   • 1849 March 3, H. J. McDougall, “Researches on Involuntary Seminal Discharges, and the Disorders Attending Them”, in The Medical Times, Volume XIX, William S. Orr and Company, page 379:

     Moreover, Boerhaave proceeded further than the suspicions of these physicians led him, as he expressly denied that he had ever known true semen to be discharged without a venereal tentigo, either sleeping or waking; so that it must be a very extraordinary disease indeed, wherein this fluid is spontaneously discharged, or without any sensation.

   • 1912 August, Victor Robinson, translating and quoting Aretaeus, in “Aretaeus, the Forgotten Physician”, in Medical Review of Reviews, Volume 18, Number 8, page 521:

     It is an unrestrainable impulse to connection; but neither are they at all relieved by these embraces, nor is the tentigo soothed by many and repeated acts of sexual intercourse.

See also

• surgation

Anagrams

• get into, get it on

Latin

Etymology

From tend? (“stretch”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ten?ti?.?o?/, [t??n??t?i??o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ten?ti.?o/, [t??n??t?i???]

Noun

tent?g? f (genitive tent?ginis); third declension

1. lecherousness, lust
2. erection of the penis

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

• English: tentigo

References

• tentigo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tentigo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tentigo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tentigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette