copulatio

Latin

Etymology

From cōpulō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [koː.pʊˈɫaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ko.puˈlat.t͡si.o]

Noun

cōpulātiō f (genitive cōpulātiōnis); third declension

1. coupling, joining, connecting, uniting

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	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.