coaptate
English edit
Etymology edit
Cognate with coapt via co- and Latin aptō (“I fasten”); the coaptate version of the verb is probably a back-formation from coaptation.
Verb edit
coaptate (third-person singular simple present coaptates, present participle coaptating, simple past and past participle coaptated)
- (transitive, chiefly medicine) To join or attach.
- 1900, Henry Johns Berkley, A Treatise on Mental Diseases:
- Female patients sometimes tell us that another woman enters her body and coaptates herself to it, especially during the act of coitus.
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Verb edit
coaptate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of coaptar combined with te