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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Terence|origins=ine-pro *h₁ey-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [koˈɪ.ti.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [koˈit.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''coitiō''' ''f'' (genitive coitiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|coeō|-tiō|t1=to come together]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ⟨coeō⟩ is from [[m|la|con-]] and [[m|la|eō|t=to go]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*ei-|t=to go]], from [[ine-pro|*h₁ey-|t=to go]].^(Wiktionary)^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Terence's ''Phormio'', ''prīma coitiō est ācerrima'' “the first encounter is the fiercest”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler also lists the Twelve Tables, which he dates about 450 BC; he dates Terence 190–159 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant a meeting, encounter, as in Terence; a coming together, assemblage, as in Cicero; a political combination or conspiracy, as in Cicero's letters to his brother; and in Apuleius a physical or chemical union of elements.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Medieval Latin it meant an encounter, fight.^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''coition'' (1540s, “a coming together”; sexual sense from the 1610s) is from it.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it of an encounter.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a political coalition.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of a union of elements.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1540s – English ''coition'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A meeting, [[m|en|encounter]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # A coming together, assemblage.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A political [[m|en|coalition]] or [[m|en|conspiracy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # A union of elements.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[abitiō]]
+ * [[ambitiō]]
+ * [[circumitiō]]
+ * [[interitiō]]
+ * [[praeteritiō]]
+ * [[prōditiō]]
+ * [[rēditiō]]
+ * [[sēditiō]]
+ * [[transitiō]]
+ * [[coeō]]
+ * [[coitus]]
+ * [[en|coition]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}