Pedantic PSA: the plural of "clitoris" is "clitorises". You can, if you're being really pedantic on Greek derivations, say "clitorides", but that tends to look like you've made a typo.

"Clitori" is never correct.

The etymology of "clitoris" is actually pretty unclear, and could have origins in any of the following:
-a little hill (noun)
-key (noun)
-to tickle (verb)
-hook (noun)
-to latch (verb)
-to sheathe (noun)

This is because there's kind of a lot of similar-sounding Ancient Greek words which are plausible.

@vagina_museum I'm pretty sure it's because they were first discovered in ClitHeroe
@vagina_museum ok, what if, and hear me out (lol), It actually did start out meaning the clitoris anatomy and early men(being guys) jokingly named hills, and keys, and hooks, and other things after it. It got stuck in the language and survived to modern Day. Good Enough doesn't have to make sense 😅
@vagina_museum I don't think I've ever had to use the plural but if I do, from now on it's Clitorides
@sarahdal @vagina_museum kinda sounds like a sports drink!
@bazkie @sarahdal @vagina_museum Sounds like the name of a hero from Greek mythology.
@titaniumbiscuit @sarahdal @vagina_museum the great Clitorides, arch enemy of Testicles
@bazkie @titaniumbiscuit @sarahdal @vagina_museum Sometimes called Clitorides the Unfindable.
@bazkie @titaniumbiscuit @sarahdal @vagina_museum an erotic spin-off of Dune universe: "House Clitorides"
@joe_vinegar @bazkie @titaniumbiscuit @sarahdal @vagina_museum Or the aspect of a certain Vicodin-loving doctor's life that doesn't get enough screen time.
@joe_vinegar @bazkie @titaniumbiscuit @sarahdal @vagina_museum There is already a similar erotic link (albeit more convoluted) in Dune:
- Harkonnen is believed to have been named after a Finnish surname (Härkönen).
- One of the famous people with that name happens to be an author (Anna-Leena Härkönen).
- Her first novel (Häräntappoase) was, in turn, named after one character's penis.
@joe_vinegar the delegates of House Clitorides wear gowns with a dark oblong shape at the front and some form of hooded head covering. when looked on from a distance they look like vaginas marching forward, their heads perfectly positioned where the clitoris would be. they appoint an oracle who, on the day of The Great Release, communicates with the spirits of pleasure to seek guidance about the coming year's harvest. there are ministers of the temple of Supreme-O who help in the process. their job is simple: find the oracle's clit and help her with the release.

@vagina_museum @sarahdal @titaniumbiscuit @bazkie
@titaniumbiscuit @bazkie @sarahdal @vagina_museum Or that classic song from Bruce Springsteen, when you pronounce it that way.
@vagina_museum "clits" to evade all this complexity!
@vagina_museum "the red mist descends whenever i'm confronted with clitori"
@vagina_museum Oh no, Vagina Museum is going prescriptivist, finally a take I can disagree with you on. 
@vagina_museum
Likewise
Penis
Penes - correct but pedantic
Penises - correct
Peni, penii - wrong
@hugh @vagina_museum dicks will do

@KFvMalssen @vagina_museum

Way to trample on the richness of the English language!
A dick can be a man who behaves tactlessly. This colours the penis meaning. A dick is a penis treated with a degree of contempt. Michelango's David has a penis, not a dick.

@vagina_museum
The Clitorides sound like a group of Greek islands - near Lesbos or Bilitis?
@vagina_museum 49% of the population can barely find one. Seems superfluous to teach them the proper plural.
@vagina_museum Alternatively, “little old fishing fleet” also works.
@vagina_museum no, no, "clitori" is actually the singular form.
@vagina_museum The Clitorides! A lost play written by Sappho!
@vagina_museum clitorides sounds like the plural of some new medicine. "hooray, I got my clitorides!"
@vagina_museum ok, but if you use the Greek it needs to be pronounced correctly. Clee-to-REE-thes.
@vagina_museum @TheTempleMom Maybe “clitorchestra”
@Moss @vagina_museum Now, that's a different kind of music!
@vagina_museum and the Clituminati are something else entirely
@vagina_museum Clito Rises is good foreshadowing AND a good band name.
@vagina_museum
It's good to hear well-researched facts from the cliterati.
@vagina_museum 'clitori' stems from 'pretending' ('assuming'?) 'clitoris' is Latin instead of Greek...?