coitus

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English

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin coitus.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊ.ɪ.təs/, /ˈkɔɪ.təs/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɔɪ.təs/, /ˈkoʊ.ɪ.təs/

Noun

coitus (countable and uncountable, plural coituses)

  1. (formal or humorous) Sexual intercourse, especially involving penile-vaginal penetration.
    • 2006 October 2nd, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory, “Pilot”, screenplay (revised first draft), act one, scene A (page 26):
      Wolowitz:   Hang on. There really is a lady here?
      Leonard:   Uh-huh.
      Wolowitz:   And you want us out because you’re anticipating coitus?
      Leonard:   No, she’s just a friend.
      Wolowitz:   So she’s available for coitus?
      Leonard:   No, she’s – –

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Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From coeō +‎ -tus.

Pronunciation

Noun

coitus m (genitive coitūs); fourth declension

  1. a coming or meeting
  2. a joining, combination
  3. sexual intercourse, copulation

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative coitus coitūs
genitive coitūs coituum
dative coituī coitibus
accusative coitum coitūs
ablative coitū coitibus
vocative coitus coitūs

Derived terms

Descendants

(all borrowed)

References

  • “coitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “coitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • coitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Swedish

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Noun

coitus

  1. (formal) coitus
    Synonym: samlag

Usage notes

Uninflected.

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