coitus

• coetus (rare)

From Latin coitus.

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

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

coitus (countable and uncountable, plural coituses)

1. (formal or 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):

     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 – –

• See Thesaurus:copulation

• coetus

From coeō +‎ -tus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.i.tus/, [ˈkoɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.i.tus/, [ˈkɔːit̪us]

coitus m (genitive coitūs); fourth declension

1. a coming or meeting
2. a joining, combination
3. sexual intercourse, copulation

Fourth-declension noun.

• coitus mōre ferārum

(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)

• “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.

coitus

1. (formal) coitus

   Synonym: samlag

Uninflected.

• coitus interruptus

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