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say it: KOY-tuhs
coitus is a noun meaning "sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur". It is pronounced /ˈkɔɪtəs/ — KOY-tuhs. It carries one recorded sense.
sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for coitus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.