Etymograph

English

coition

Coition comes from Latin coitiō ‘meeting’, from coeō ‘to assemble, meet, come together’, and ultimately from eō.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeō1
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcoeō1‘to assemble, meet, come together’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcoitiō2‘meeting’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1650coition2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin coitio
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English coition
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […]: “their coition is made by supersaliency, like that of…”.

Earlier history not traced here. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeōWiktionary, Latin coitio
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcoeōWiktionary, Latin coitio‘to assemble, meet, come together’
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcoitiōWiktionary, English coition‘meeting’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1650coitionWiktionary, English coition. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […]: “their coition is made by supersaliency, like that of…”

Linked words

through Latin eō

issue, initial, exit, transition, ambient, trance, ambitious, transient, obituary, ambition, eyre, ambiance, transitory, transitive, praetorian, praetor, sedition, ambit, obit, seditious, 22 more

Today it means

noun Sexual intercourse.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “coition”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin coitio. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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