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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Cato|origins=ine-pro *h₁ey-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈko.e.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkɔː.e.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''coeō''' (present infinitive coīre, perfect active coiī or coīvī, supine coitum); irregular conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ Perfect ''coiī'', rarely ''coīvī'', and Quintilian mentions ''conīre'' for ''coīre''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[con-]] “together” and [[eō]] “to go”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨eō⟩ to [[ine-pro|*h₁ey-|t=to go]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Cato, of a wound closing, and Plautus.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cato 234–149 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to come together, meet, as in Terence; to have sexual intercourse, as in Plautus; of things to be placed together, to extend so as to meet, as in Ovid; of wounds and broken bones to close up, knit, as in Cato; to crowd together, contract, as in Propertius; to unite into a whole, coalesce, as in Lucretius; to form by condensing, as in Vitruvius; to band together in an alliance, as in Nepos; and transitively to form an alliance or pact, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to meet, come together, have sexual intercourse.^(Stelten 1995) Its nouns ''coitus'' and ''coetus'' “meeting” come from it.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of wounds closing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of intercourse.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of forming an alliance.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To come together, meet.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To have [[m|en|sexual intercourse]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # (of wounds) To close up, [[m|en|knit]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To unite, [[m|en|coalesce]]; to contract.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To band together; to form (an alliance).^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[coetus]]
+ * [[coitiō]]
+ * [[coitus]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[comes]]
+ * [[eō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}