copulate

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English

Etymology

Latin copulare (“to couple”) perfect participle, from stem copulat-.

Pronunciation

  • (verb)
    • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒp.jʊ.leɪt/
      • Audio (Southern England)(file)
    • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.pjə.leɪt/
    • Rhymes: -ɒpjəleɪt
  • (adjective)

Verb

copulate (third-person singular simple present copulates, present participle copulating, simple past and past participle copulated)

  1. (somewhat formal) To engage in sexual intercourse.
    The amorous couple were found copulating inside the car.

Synonyms

Related terms

Translations

copulate — see mate
copulate — see cover
take part in a sexual act — see have sex
to engage in sexual intercourse — see make love
to have sexual intercourse with someone, something — see mount
to have sexual intercourse with — see bed

Adjective

copulate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Joined; associated; coupled.
    • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Custom and Education”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
      the force of custome copulate, and conioyn'd
  2. (grammar) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.
    • 1870, Francis March, A Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language:
      Copulate words may be really a simple subject, 1, a repetition of the same notion, often a climax

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

copulate

  1. inflection of copulare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

copulate f pl

  1. feminine plural of copulato

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

cōpulāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of cōpulō

References

  • “copulate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • copulate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

copulate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of copular combined with te
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