copulatio

Latin

Etymology

From cōpulō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koː.puˈlaː.ti.oː/, [koːpʊˈɫ̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko.puˈlat.t͡si.o/, [kopuˈlät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

cōpulātiō f (genitive cōpulātiōnis); third declension

1. coupling, joining, connecting, uniting

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōpulātiō	cōpulātiōnēs
Genitive	cōpulātiōnis	cōpulātiōnum
Dative	cōpulātiōnī	cōpulātiōnibus
Accusative	cōpulātiōnem	cōpulātiōnēs
Ablative	cōpulātiōne	cōpulātiōnibus
Vocative	cōpulātiō	cōpulātiōnēs

Descendants

• Czech: copulace
• English: copulation
• French: copulation
• Italian: copulazione
• Portuguese: copulação
• Romanian: copulație
• Russian: копуля́ция (kopuljácija)
• Spanish: copulación

References

• “copulatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “copulatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• copulatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.