copulate

From the perfect passive participle of Latin cōpulāre (“to couple”).

• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒp.jʊ.leɪt/

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  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.pjə.leɪt/

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  • Rhymes: -ɒpjəleɪt
• (adjective)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒp.jʊ.lət/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.pjə.lət/

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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.

• fuck, have sex, make love, screw, swive, bang, sleep together, boff
• See also Thesaurus:copulate

• copulin
• copulation
• copulator
• copulatee
• copulable
• copulability

copulate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Joined; associated; coupled.
   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Custom and Education”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

     the force of custome copulate, and conioyn'd

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

• outplace

copulate

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

copulate f pl

1. feminine plural of copulato

• peculato

cōpulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cōpulō

• “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.

copulate

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