coitus

English

Alternative forms

• coetus (rare, hypercorrect)
• coïtus

Etymology

From Latin coitus.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Noun

coitus (countable and uncountable, plural coituses)

2. (formal, now also humorous) Sexual intercourse, especially that involving penile–vaginal penetration.

   Synonyms: intercourse, congress; see also Thesaurus:copulation

   • 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 – –

Derived terms

• coit
• coital
• coitally
• coitarche
• coitize
• coitizer
• coitophobia
• coitus interruptus
• coitus obstructus
• coitus reservatus
• coitus saxonicus
• postcoitus
• precoitus

Translations

sexual interaction — see also sexual intercourse

• Arabic: جِمَاع m (jimāʕ), مُجَامَعَة f (mujāmaʕa), مُضَاجَعَة f (muḍājaʕa)
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} съвокупление (sǎvokuplenie)
• Catalan: coit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 性交 (zh) (xìngjiāo)

• Czech: soulož (cs) f, koitus (cs) m
• Danish: coitus, samleje (da) n
• Dutch: coïtus (nl) m
• Esperanto: koito
• Finnish: sukupuoliyhdyntä (fi)
• French: coït (fr) m
• Galician: coito (gl) m
• Georgian: სექსუალური აქტი (seksualuri akṭi), კოიტუსი (ḳoiṭusi), შეჯვარება (šeǯvareba) (of animals), დაწყვილება (dac̣q̇vileba) (of animals)
• German: Koitus (de) m, Geschlechtsverkehr (de) m
• Greek: συνουσία (el) f (synousía)

  Ancient Greek: συνουσία f (sunousía), λαγνεία f (lagneía), μίξις f (míxis)

• Hebrew: בְּעִילָה (he) f (be'ilá)
• Hindi: मैथुन (hi) m (maithun)
• Hungarian: szex (hu), közösülés (hu)
• Ido: koito (io)
• Indonesian: koitus (id)
• Italian: coito (it) m
• Japanese: 性交 (ja) (せいこう, seikō)
• Korean: 성교(性交) (ko) (seonggyo)
• Latin: coitus m
• Lithuanian: sueitis f
• Marathi: मैथुन n (maithun), संभोग (mr) m (sambhog)
• Pashto: غو (γo)
• Persian: مجامعه (mojâme'e), مرزش (morzeš)
• Portuguese: coito (pt) m
• Romanian: coit (ro) n
• Russian: полово́е сноше́ние (ru) n (polovóje snošénije), сноше́ние (ru) n (snošénije), полово́й акт (ru) m (polovój akt), совокупле́ние (ru) n (sovokuplénije), ко́итус (ru) m (kóitus), ^{(please verify)} соитие (ru) (soitije)
• Slovak: koitus, súlož, sex (sk)
• Spanish: coito (es) m
• Swedish: coitus (sv), samlag (sv) c
• Tagalog: hindutan
• Tamil: புணர்ச்சி (ta) (puṇarcci)
• Telugu: రతి (te) (rati), మైథునము (te) (maithunamu)
• Vietnamese: sự giao cấu (vi), tính giao (vi) (性交), giao cấu (vi)

Danish

Etymology

From Latin coitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoˀitus]

Noun

coitus (singular definite ~, plural indefinite coitus)

1. (formal) sex in general

Synonyms

• sex, (vulgar) knald, (clinical) samleje, elskov (poetic)

Derived terms

• coital
• coitus interruptus

Further reading

• “coitus” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈko.ɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.i.tus]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of coëō.

Participle

coitus (feminine coita, neuter coitum); first/second-declension participle

1. (of a group of people) assembled; met (together)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	coitus	coita	coitum		coitī	coitae	coita
genitive	coitī	coitae	coitī		coitōrum	coitārum	coitōrum
dative	coitō	coitae	coitō		coitīs
accusative	coitum	coitam	coitum		coitōs	coitās	coita
ablative	coitō	coitā	coitō		coitīs
vocative	coite	coita	coitum		coitī	coitae	coita

Etymology 2

From coëō +‎ -tus.

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

Alternative forms

• coetus

Derived terms

• coitus mōre ferārum

Descendants

(all borrowed)

• Catalan: coit
• English: coitus
• Middle French: coit
  • French: coït
    • → Romanian: coit
• Galician: coito
• Italian: coito
• German: Koitus
• Portuguese: coito
• Swedish: coitus
• Ukrainian: ко́їтус (kójitus)

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

Noun

coitus ? (indeclinable)

1. (formal) coitus

   Synonym: samlag

Derived terms

• coitus interruptus

References

• coitus in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• coitus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Fula Ordboken