fornicate

English

Pronunciation

adjective

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː.nɪ.kət/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹ.nɪ.kət/

verb

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔː.nɪˌkeɪt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹ.nɪˌkeɪt/

Etymology 1

First attested in 1552; borrowed from Latin fornicātus, perfect active participle of fornicor (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), 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.

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

• Californicate
• fornicated
• fornicator
• Fornigate
• phonicate
• telephonicate

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)

• Czech: smilnit impf
• Esperanto: forniki
• Finnish: käydä vieraissa (fi)
• French: forniquer (fr)
• Galician: fornicar
• German: Unzucht treiben
• Hebrew: זָנָה (he) (zaná)
• Hungarian: paráználkodik (hu)
• 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
• Malay: sanggama, senggama, amput (ms)
• Maori: kaikaiātara, moepuku
• Occitan: fornicar
• Old English: forlicgan, hæman
• 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)
• Swedish: bedriva otukt
• Tagalog: makipagtalik

Etymology 2

First attested in 1828; from fornix +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective

fornicate (comparative more fornicate, superlative most fornicate)

1. (especially biology) Shaped like an arch or vault; resembling a fornix.

Alternative forms

• fornicated

Derived terms

• fornicate gyrus
• subfornicate

Translations

shaped like an arch

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

Anagrams

• factioner, fornacite, refaction

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

Latin

Participle

fornicāte

1. vocative masculine singular of fornicātus

Spanish

Verb

fornicate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of fornicar combined with te