coitus

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin coitus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.ɪ.təs/, /ˈkɔɪ.təs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɪ.təs/, /ˈkoʊ.ɪ.təs/

Noun

coitus (uncountable)

1. The coming together of male and female sex organs, sometimes in the act of sexual procreation; the male's penis is inserted into the female's vagina, usually until orgasm and ejaculation of semen occur; copulation.

Synonyms

• carnal knowledge
• coition
• copulation
• pareunia
• sex act
• sexual congress
• sexual intercourse
• sexual relation

Derived terms

• coital
• coitarche
• coitally
• coitize
• coitizer
• coitus interruptus
• coitus reservatus

Translations

sexual interaction

• Arabic: جماع m (jimāʿ), مجامعة f (mujāmaʿa), مضاجعة f (muḍājaʿa)
• Catalan: coit m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 性交 (zh) (xìngjiāo)

• Czech: soulož (cs) f
• Dutch: coïtus (nl) m
• Finnish: sukupuoliyhdyntä (fi)
• French: coït (fr) m
• Galician: coito m
• German: Koitus (de) m, Geschlechtsverkehr (de) m
• Greek: συνουσία (el) f (synousía)

• Italian: coito (it) m
• Japanese: 性交 (せいこう, seikō)
• Korean: 성교 (ko) (seong-gyo) (性交 (ko))
• Lithuanian: sueitis f
• Portuguese: coito (pt) m
• Russian: половое сношение (ru) n (polovóje snošénije), сношение (ru) n (snošénije), половой акт (ru) m (polovój akt), совокупление (ru) n (sovokuplénije), коитус (ru) m (kóitus)
• Spanish: coito (es) m
• Swedish: samlag (sv)
• Vietnamese: sự giao cấu (vi), tính giao (vi) (性交), giao cấu (vi)

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Latin

Etymology

From past participle of coīre (“to copulate”), from co- (“together”) + īre (“to go, come”).

Alternative forms

• coetus

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.i.tus/

Noun

coitus m (genitive coitūs); fourth declension

1. union; meeting

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	coitus	coitūs
genitive	coitūs	coituum
dative	coituī	coitibus
accusative	coitum	coitūs
ablative	coitū	coitibus
vocative	coitus	coitūs