copulation

English

From Middle French copulation, from Latin copulo (“I join, unite, connect”).

copulation (countable and uncountable, plural copulations)

(countable) The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
(uncountable) Sexual procreation between a man and a woman or transfer of the sperm from male to female; usually applied to the mating process in nonhuman animals; coitus; coition.
- ca.1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VIII:
  Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.
- 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 30:
  In the dusky streets around me ruled an innocent and open copulation. The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens.

the act of joining

Bulgarian: свързване (bg) n (svǎrzvane)
Finnish: liittäminen (fi), liittyminen (fi), yhdistäminen (fi), yhdistyminen (fi), yhtyminen (fi), koplaus
Georgian: შეერთება (šeerteba), გაერთიანება (gaertianeba)
German: Verbindung (de) f
Malay: kopulasi
Portuguese: acoplagem f, acoplamento (pt) m, cópula (pt) m, junção (pt) f, ligação (pt) f, união (pt) f
Romanian: unire (ro) f, împerechere (ro) f
Russian: соедине́ние (ru) n (sojedinénije)

the coming together of male and female in sexual intercourse

Arabic: مُضَاجَعَة‎ f (muḍājaʿa), جِمَاع‎ m (jimāʿ)
Bulgarian: съвкупление n (sǎvkuplenie)
Dutch: copulatie (nl) f
Estonian: paaritumine, kopulatsioon
Finnish: parittelu (fi)
French: copulation (fr) f
Georgian: სქესობრივი აქტი (skesobrivi akṭi), კოპულაცია (ḳoṗulacia), კოიტუსი (ḳoiṭusi), შეწყვილება (šec̣q̇vileba) (for animals)
German: Koitus (de) m, Kopulation (de) f, Beischlaf (de) m, Akt (de) m, Begattung (de) f, Paarung f, Kohabitation (de) f
Greek:
Ancient: συνουσία f (sunousía), μίξις f (míxis)
Indonesian: kopulasi (id)
Japanese: 性交 (ja) (せいこう, seikō)
Lithuanian: dauginimasis m
Malay: kopulasi
Polish: kopulacja (pl) f
Portuguese: coito (pt) m, cópula (pt) f
Romanian: copulație (ro) f, împerechere (ro)
Russian: сноше́ние (ru) n (snošénije), совокупле́ние (ru) n (sovokuplénije), копуля́ция (ru) f (kopuljácija), ко́итус (ru) m (kóitus)
Slovak: kopulácia, párenie
Spanish: coito (es) m, copulación f
Tagalog: pagtatalik
Telugu: రతి (te) (rati)
Volapük: koit (vo)

Borrowed from Latin cōpulātiō. Synchronically analyzable as copuler +‎ -ation.

copulation f (plural copulations)