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1561 Etymology dictionary, p. conjunction (n.).3
Compare Italian congiunzione, Spanish conjunción, from the same Latin noun. The English word also had the meaning "sexual union" 17c.-18c. Old English used geðeodnys as a loan-translation of Latin coniunctio .
1562 Etymology dictionary, p. consummation (n.).2
… (by sexual intercourse)" is c. 1530.
1563 Etymology dictionary, p. consummate (v.).3
Meaning "to bring a marriage to completion" (by sexual intercourse) is from 1530s. Related: Consummated; consummating .
1564 Etymology dictionary, p. continence (n.).2
… in sexual intercourse, chastity, restraint of the sexual passions within lawful bounds," from Old French continence (14c.) and directly from Latin continentia …
1565 Etymology dictionary, p. continent (adj.).2
… in sexual intercourse," from Old French continent and directly from Latin continentem (nominative continens ) "holding together, continuous," present participle …
1566 Etymology dictionary, p. conversation (n.).3
… for "sexual intercourse" from at least late 14c., hence criminal conversation, a legal term for adultery from late 18c. Conversation-piece is from 1712 as "painting …
1567 Etymology dictionary, p. conversion (n.).2
… , residence; sexual intercourse," from Latin conversionem (nominative conversio ) "a turning round, revolving; alteration, change," noun of action from past-participle …
1568 Etymology dictionary, p. coochie (n.).2
"vagina," slang, by 1991, perhaps from hoochie-coochie, especially in the blues song "Hoochie Coochie Man" by Willie Dixon (1954), featuring a sexually suggestive phrase that traces at least to the 1893 World's Fair (see hoochy koochy ).
1569 Etymology dictionary, p. coprophilia (n.).2
… , usually sexual, to defecation and feces," 1914, from copro- + -philia. Related: Coprophilic (1910, in Brill's translation of Freud). French coprophile is attested …
1570 Etymology dictionary, p. copulate (v.).2
… "unite sexually" is attested from 1630s. Related: Copulated; copulating .
1571 Etymology dictionary, p. copulation (n.).2
… of "sexual intercourse, coition" is from late 15c., and this became the main sense from 16c.
1572 Etymology dictionary, p. couple (v.).2
… "embrace sexually, copulate" is from c. 1400. Related: Coupled; coupling .
1573 Etymology dictionary, p. cuckold (n.).3
… perhaps "sexually aggressive hen," with transferal to humans, but Kluge suggests rather a connection to words for "capon" and "castrated." The female equivalent …
1574 Etymology dictionary, p. cum.2
… the sexual sense that originated in pornographic writing, perhaps first in the noun. This "experience sexual orgasm" slang meaning of come (perhaps originally …
1575 Etymology dictionary, p. cum.5
The sexual cum seems to have no connection with Latin cum, the preposition meaning "with, together with, in connection with" (an archaic form of com; see com- ) which …
1576 Etymology dictionary, p. cunnilingus (n.).3
… of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature," 1994] writes that Nicolas Chorier's 17c. "Satyra Sotadica" "relates how Gonsalvo of …
1577 Etymology dictionary, p. deal (v.).4
To deal with "handle, act toward (in some way)" is attested from mid-15c., from the notion of "engage in mutual intercourse, have to do with;" in late 14c. the phrase also mean "have sexual intercourse with." Related: Dealt; dealing .
1578 Etymology dictionary, p. debauch (v.).4
… , seduce sexually," usually in reference to women. Intransitive sense "indulge in excess in sensual enjoyment" is from 1640s. As a noun, "a bout of excessive sensual …
1579 Etymology dictionary, p. debt (n.).3
Meaning "state of being under obligation to make payment" is from mid-14c. Restored spelling after c. 1400. In Middle English, debt of the body (mid-14c.) was "that which spouses owe to each other, sexual intercourse."
1580 Etymology dictionary, p. delight (n.).2
… , delight, sexual desire," from delitier "please greatly, charm," from Latin delectare "to allure, delight, charm, please," frequentative of delicere "entice" (see delicious …