Where does “copulate” come from?
copulate (Italian) comes from Italian copulare, from Latin cōpulō, from Latin cōpula, from Latin coapula, from Latin apio, from Latin apium, from Latin Apis, from Ancient Greek Ἄπις — the god Apis.
copulate (Italian): second-person plural present indicative of...
Definitions
- second-person plural present indicative of...
Ancestry of “copulate”, step by step
copulate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian copulare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | copulare | to copulate |
| 2 | Latin | cōpulō | to bind or tie together, unite, join, couple |
| 3 | Latin | cōpula | a bond, tie, band or other connecting item |
| 4 | Latin | coapula | — |
| 5 | Latin | apio | dative singular of apium; ablative singular of... |
| 6 | Latin | apium | parsley; celery; genitive plural of apis |
| 7 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 9 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 10 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |
via Italian copulato
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | copulato | past participle of copulare |