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copulate

English

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Etymology

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Latin cōpulāre (“to couple”) perfect participle, from stem copulat-.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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copulate (third-person singular simple present copulates, present participle copulating, simple past and past participle copulated)

  1. (somewhat formal) To engage in sexual intercourse.
    The amorous couple were found copulating inside the car.

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Translations

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copulate — see mate
copulate — see cover
take part in a sexual act — see have sex
to engage in sexual intercourse — see make love
to have sexual intercourse with someone, something — see mount
to have sexual intercourse with — see bed

Adjective

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copulate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Joined; associated; coupled.
  2. (grammar) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.
    • 1870, Francis March, A Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language:
      Copulate words may be really a simple subject, 1, a repetition of the same notion, often a climax

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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copulate

  1. inflection of copulare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

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Participle

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copulate f pl

  1. feminine plural of copulato

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Latin

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Verb

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cōpulāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of cōpulō

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  • “copulate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • copulate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

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Verb

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copulate

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