coitus

English

Alternative forms

• coetus (rare)

Etymology

From Latin coitus.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Noun

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 – –

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:copulation

Derived terms

• coit
• coital
• coitally
• coitarche
• coitize
• coitizer
• coitophobia
• coitus interruptus
• coitus reservatus
• postcoitus
• precoitus

 

Translations

sexual interaction — see also sexual intercourse

• Arabic: جِمَاع m (jimāʕ), مُجَامَعَة f (mujāmaʕa), مُضَاجَعَة f (muḍājaʕa)
• Catalan: coit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 性交 (zh) (xìngjiāo)

• Czech: soulož (cs) f, koitus (cs) m
• Dutch: coïtus (nl) m
• Esperanto: koito
• Finnish: sukupuoliyhdyntä (fi)
• French: coït (fr) m
• Galician: coito (gl) m
• Georgian: სექსუალური აქტი (seksualuri akṭi), კოიტუსი (ḳoiṭusi), შეჯვარება (šeǯvareba) (of animals), დაწყვილება (dac̣q̇vileba) (of animals)
• German: Koitus (de) m, Geschlechtsverkehr (de) m
• Greek: συνουσία (el) f (synousía)
• Hebrew: בְּעִילָה (he) f (be'ilá)
• Hungarian: szex (hu), közösülés (hu)
• Ido: koito (io)
• Indonesian: koitus (id)
• Italian: coito (it) m
• Japanese: 性交 (ja) (せいこう, seikō)
• Korean: 성교(性交) (ko) (seonggyo)
• Latin: coitus m
• Lithuanian: sueitis f
• Marathi: मैथुन n (maithun), संभोग (mr) m (sambhog)
• Pashto: غو (γo)
• Portuguese: coito (pt) m
• Romanian: coit (ro) n
• Russian: полово́е сноше́ние (ru) n (polovóje snošénije), сноше́ние (ru) n (snošénije), полово́й акт (ru) m (polovój akt), совокупле́ние (ru) n (sovokuplénije), ко́итус (ru) m (kóitus)
• Slovak: koitus, súlož, sex (sk)
• Spanish: coito (es) m
• Swedish: coitus (sv), samlag (sv) c
• Tagalog: hindutan
• Vietnamese: sự giao cấu (vi), tính giao (vi) (性交), giao cấu (vi)

Latin

Alternative forms

• coetus

Etymology

From coeō +‎ -tus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

coitus m (genitive coitūs); fourth declension

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

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	coitus	coitūs
Genitive	coitūs	coituum
Dative	coituī	coitibus
Accusative	coitum	coitūs
Ablative	coitū	coitibus
Vocative	coitus	coitūs

Derived terms

• coitus mōre ferārum

Descendants

(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)

References

• “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

Noun

coitus

1. (formal) coitus

   Synonym: samlag

Usage notes

Uninflected.

Derived terms

• coitus interruptus

References

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