Where does “copulability” come from?
copulability (English) comes from English copulable, from English copulate, from Latin copulatus, from Latin cōpulō, from Latin cōpula, from Latin coapula, from Latin apio, from Latin apium — the god Apis.
copulability (English): The quality of being sexually receptive
Definitions
- The quality of being sexually receptive
Ancestry of “copulability”, step by step
copulability traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English copulable
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | copulable | Able to be sexually penetrated |
| 2 | English | copulate | To engage in sexual intercourse; Joined;... |
| 3 | Latin | copulatus | united, joined, coupled; connected |
| 4 | Latin | cōpulō | to bind or tie together, unite, join, couple |
| 5 | Latin | cōpula | a bond, tie, band or other connecting item |
| 6 | Latin | coapula | — |
| 7 | Latin | apio | dative singular of apium; ablative singular of... |
| 8 | Latin | apium | parsley; celery; genitive plural of apis |
| 9 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 11 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 12 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |