coaptate

English

Etymology

First attested in 1649; either a back-formation from coaptation or directly borrowed from Late Latin coaptātus, perfect passive participle of coaptō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from co- +‎ aptō (“to fasten”). Doublet of coapt.

Verb

coaptate (third-person singular simple present coaptates, present participle coaptating, simple past and past participle coaptated)

1. (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.

Related terms

• coapt
• coaptation

Spanish

Verb

coaptate

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