fornicate

English

Etymology

From Latin fornicātus, perfect passive participle to fornicor, from fornix (“arch, vault; brothel”). It was customary for courtesans of the era to wait for their customers out of the rain in arched passageways.

Pronunciation

Adjective

• , IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː.nɪ.kət/

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• , IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹ.nɪ.kət/

Verb

• , IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː.nɪˌkeɪt/

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• , IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹ.nɪˌkeɪt/

Adjective

fornicate (comparative more fornicate, superlative most fornicate)

1. Shaped like an arch or vault; resembling a fornix.

Derived terms

• fornicated
• fornicate gyrus

Translations

shaped like an arch

• Bulgarian: сводест (svodest)
• Finnish: holvin muotoinen
• French: please add this translation if you can
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• Russian: сво́дчатый (ru) (svódčatyj), вы́гнутый (ru) (výgnutyj)

Verb

fornicate (third-person singular simple present fornicates, present participle fornicating, simple past and past participle fornicated)

1. (intransitive) To engage in fornication.

Hypernyms

• have sex, make love, seduce; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Derived terms

• fornicated
• fornicator

Translations

to engage in fornication

• Arabic: زَنَى (ar) (zanā)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܙܵܢܹܐ (zane)
• Bulgarian: развра́тнича (bg) (razvrátniča)
• Catalan: fornicar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 通姦／通奸 (zh) (tōngjiān), 通奸 (zh) (tōngjiān)

• Czech: smilnit impf
• Esperanto: forniki
• Finnish: käydä vieraissa (fi)
• French: forniquer (fr)
• Galician: fornicar
• German: Unzucht treiben
• Hebrew: זָנָה (he) (zaná)
• Hungarian: paráználkodik (hu)
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• Ido: fornikar (io)
• Italian: fornicare (it), copulare (it), accoppiarsi (it), fare l'amore (it)
• Japanese: 姦淫する (ja) (かんいんする, kan'in suru)
• Korean: 간통하다 (ko) (gantonghada)
• Latin: fornicor
• Maori: kaikaiātara, moepuku
• Occitan: fornicar
• Polish: cudzołożyć (pl) impf
• Portuguese: fornicar (pt)
• Russian: распу́тничать (ru) impf (raspútničatʹ), блуди́ть (ru) impf (bludítʹ), развра́тничать (ru) impf (razvrátničatʹ), прелюбоде́йствовать (ru) impf (preljubodéjstvovatʹ)
• Slovak: smilniť impf
• Spanish: fornicar (es)
• Tagalog: makipagtalik

Anagrams

• factioner, fornacite, refaction

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

fornicate

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

Etymology 2

Participle

fornicate f pl

1. feminine plural of fornicato

Anagrams

• conferita, farnetico, farneticò, inforcate, nefrotica

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) fornicāte

1. vocative masculine singular of fornicātus