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語源

From the oblique stem of Latin coitiō.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /kəʊˈɪʃ(ə)n/

名詞

coition (usually uncountable, plural coitions)

1. (obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     their coition is made by supersaliency, like that of horses, as we are informed by some who have beheld them in that act

   • 1907, Byron Robinson, The Abdominal and Pelvic Brain with Automatic Visceral Ganglia, page 233:

     A mare put to a stallion fell dead at the end of coition.

   • 1961, D. H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious:

     Sex without the consummating act of coition is never quite sex, in human relationships: just as a eunuch is never quite a man.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 91:

     All sages and physicians agree in saying that the ills which afflict man originate with the abuse of coition.

同意語

• coitus

派生語