coition

English

Etymology

From the oblique stem of Latin coitiō.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəʊˈɪʃ(ə)n/

Noun

coition (usually uncountable, plural coitions)

1. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     their coition is made by supersaliency, like that of horses, as we are informed by some who have beheld them in that act

   • 1907, Byron Robinson, The Abdominal and Pelvic Brain with Automatic Visceral Ganglia, page 233:

     A mare put to a stallion fell dead at the end of coition.

   • 1961, D. H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious:

     Sex without the consummating act of coition is never quite sex, in human relationships: just as a eunuch is never quite a man.

Synonyms

• coitus

Derived terms

• coitional

 

Translations

sexual intercourse

• Bulgarian: съвокупление (sǎvokuplenie)
• Galician: coito (gl) m
• Greek:

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

• Latin: coitus m
• Persian: مجامعه (mojâme'e), مرزش (morzeš)
• Russian: совокупле́ние (ru) n (sovokuplénije), соитие (ru) (soitije)
• Telugu: రతి (te) (rati), మైథునము (te) (maithunamu)