English

Noun

coetus ‎(uncountable)

1. Rare spelling of coitus.
   • 1907, Progress VII, page 70:

     Pulsatilla. — Cutting pain in the uterus; uterus sensitive to the touch during examination or coetus.

   • ante 1968, Karl Barth quoted in: Elizabeth Achtemeier’s The Committed Marriage (1976), page 160:

     Coetus without co-existence is demonic. What are you, you man and woman who are about to enter into sexual relations?

Latin

Alternative forms

• coitus

Etymology

From co- ‎(“together”) +‎ itus ‎(“going”), from eō ‎(“I go”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoe̯.tus/, [ˈkoe̯.tʊs]

Noun

coetus m ‎(genitive coetūs); fourth declension

1. union; meeting, interaction

Declension

Fourth declension.

References

• coetus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coetus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• COETUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cœtŭs”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 335/1–2.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to shun society: hominum coetus, congressus fugere