coitus的词源

英文词源

coitus

coitus: see exit

coitus (n.)

"copulation," 1713, scientific Latin, from Latin coitus "a meeting together; sexual union," past participle of coire, from com- "together" (see co-) + ire "come, go," (see ion). In Middle English as coite (early 15c.). Used in English in general senses of "meeting, uniting," and also of magnetic force, planetary conjunction, etc., before sexual sense came to predominate.

中文词源

coitus：性交

co-, 强调。-it, 走，词源同exit. 字面意思即走到一起。比较copulate.

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