coitus interruptus

English

Etymology

From Latin coitus (“sexual intercourse”) + interruptus (“interrupted, cut short”), the perfect passive participle of interrumpo (“to interrupt, to cut short”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

coitus interruptus (uncountable)

1. Sexual intercourse interrupted by withdrawal of the penis before ejaculation.

   Coordinate term: coitus reservatus

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 351:

     Yet in the event, population continued to grow – even though signs began to appear that coitus interruptus was beginning to be used systematically to reduce family size.

   • 2003 October 7, Lucy Atkins, “Men on the pill? Yeah, right”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     We have come some way since sheep's bladder condoms but male contraceptive options are still pretty basic. Not counting one Chinese invention - a small electronic device worn in the underpants, which causes infertility for a month after a current is switched on briefly - it is still down to the old favourites: abstinence, coitus interruptus, condoms or vasectomy.

   • [2013, Grace Burrowes, Once Upon a Tartan, Sourcebooks, →ISBN, page 287:

     She'd long since caught the knack of moving with him, and closed her arms and legs around him. “You'll fly with me, Tiberius? Take the last fence with me?” He'd meant to pull out. Coitus interruptus was a term even the scholars failing their Latin knew before they left public school.]

Translations

sexual intercourse interrupted by withdrawal of the penis — see also pullout

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 體外射精 / 体外射精 (tǐwài shèjīng)

• Czech: přerušovaná soulož f
• Danish: afbrudt samleje n, stå af i Roskilde (slang)
• Esperanto: interrompita koito
• Finnish: keskeytetty yhdyntä
• French: coït interrompu (fr) m, coitus interruptus (fr) m
• Galician: coitus interruptus
• German: Coitus interruptus m
• Greek: διακοπτόμενη συνουσία (el) f (diakoptómeni synousía)
• Hungarian: megszakított közösülés
• Icelandic: rofnar samfarir f pl
• Italian: coito interrotto m
• Japanese: 膣外射精 (ja) (ちつがいしゃせい, chitsugaishasei)
• Korean: 체외사정 (che'oesajeong)
• Norwegian: hoppe av i svingen (no)
• Polish: stosunek przerywany (pl) m
• Portuguese: coito interrompido (pt) m
• Russian: пре́рванный полово́й акт m (prérvannyj polovój akt)
• Serbo-Croatian: prekinuti snošaj m
• Slovak: prerušovaná súlož f
• Spanish: coitus interruptus (es) m, coito interrupto m, coito interrumpido m, marcha atrás (es) f (literally “reverse gear”)
• Swedish: avbrutet samlag, coitus interruptus, finska rycket (slang)
• Telugu: అస్ఖలిత మైథునం (askhalita maithunaṁ)

See also

• get off at Haymarket
• pull out

Further reading

• coitus interruptus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

From Latin coitus (“sexual intercourse”) + interruptus (“interrupted, cut short”), the perfect passive participle of interrumpo (“to interrupt, to cut short”).

Noun

coitus interruptus

1. coitus interruptus

   Synonyms: afbrudt samleje, (slang) stå af i Roskilde

References

• “coitus interruptus” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Latin coitus (“sexual intercourse”) + interruptus (“interrupted, cut short”), the perfect passive participle of interrumpo (“to interrupt, to cut short”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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Noun

coitus interruptus m (uncountable)

1. coitus interruptus

Spanish

Alternative forms

• coito interrupto

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin coitus interruptus (literally “sexual intercourse interrupted”), from coeō (“to meet, to have sex”) and interrumpō (“to interrupt, to cut short”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkoitus inteˈrubtus/ [ˌkoi̯.t̪us ĩn̪.t̪eˈruβ̞.t̪us]
• Syllabification: coi‧tus in‧te‧rrup‧tus

Noun

coitus interruptus m (uncountable)

1. coitus interruptus

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “coitus interruptus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Noun

coitus interruptus ? (indeclinable)

1. coitus interruptus

   Synonyms: avbrutet samlag, (slang) finska rycket

References

• “coitus”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “coitus”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Fula Ordboken