coitus
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English
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[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊ.ɪ.təs/, /ˈkɔɪ.təs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɔɪ.təs/, /ˈkoʊ.ɪ.təs/
Noun
[edit]coitus (countable and uncountable, plural coituses)
- (formal, now also 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):
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[edit]sexual interaction — see also sexual intercourse
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Danish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]coitus (singular definite ~, plural indefinite coitus)
Synonyms
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[edit]- “coitus” in Den Danske Ordbog
Latin
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[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈko.ɪ.tʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkɔː.i.t̪us]
Noun
[edit]coitus m (genitive coitūs); fourth declension
- a coming or meeting
- a joining, combination
- sexual intercourse, copulation
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | coitus | coitūs |
genitive | coitūs | coituum |
dative | coituī | coitibus |
accusative | coitum | coitūs |
ablative | coitū | coitibus |
vocative | coitus | coitūs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit](all borrowed)
- Catalan: coit
- English: coitus
- Middle French: coit
- Galician: coito
- Italian: coito
- German: Koitus
- Portuguese: coito
- Swedish: coitus
- Ukrainian: ко́їтус (kójitus)
References
[edit]- “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
[edit]Noun
[edit]coitus
Usage notes
[edit]Uninflected.
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- da:Sex
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- la:Sex
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