fornicate

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː.nɪ.kət/
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• General-American: /ˈfɔɹ.nɪ.kət/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː.nɪˌkeɪt/
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First attested in 1828; from fornix + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

First attested in 1552; borrowed from Latin fornicātus, perfect active participle of fornicor (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fornix (“arch, vault; brothel”). It was customary for courtesans of the era to wait for their customers out of the rain in arched passageways.

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: сводест (svodest) — shaped like an arch
• Finnish: holvin muotoinen — shaped like an arch
• Russian: сво́дчатый (svódčatyj) — shaped like an arch
• Russian: вы́гнутый (výgnutyj) — shaped like an arch
• Arabic: زَنَى (zanā) — to engage in fornication
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܙܵܢܹܐ (zane) — to engage in fornication
• Bulgarian: развра́тнича (razvrátniča) — to engage in fornication
• Catalan: fornicar — to engage in fornication
• Chinese Mandarin: 通姦 /通奸 (tōngjiān) — to engage in fornication
• Czech: smilnit — to engage in fornication
• Esperanto: forniki — to engage in fornication
• Finnish: käydä vieraissa — to engage in fornication
• French: forniquer — to engage in fornication
• Galician: fornicar — to engage in fornication
• German: Unzucht treiben — to engage in fornication
• Hebrew: זָנָה (zaná) — to engage in fornication
• Hungarian: paráználkodik — to engage in fornication
• Ido: fornikar — to engage in fornication
• Italian: fornicare — to engage in fornication
• Italian: copulare — to engage in fornication
• Italian: accoppiarsi — to engage in fornication
• Italian: fare l'amore — to engage in fornication
• Japanese: 姦淫する (kan'in suru) — to engage in fornication
• Korean: 간통하다 (gantonghada) — to engage in fornication
• Latin: fornicor — to engage in fornication
• Malay: sanggama — to engage in fornication
• Malay: senggama — to engage in fornication
• Malay: amput — to engage in fornication
• Māori: kaikaiātara — to engage in fornication
• Māori: moepuku — to engage in fornication
• Occitan: fornicar — to engage in fornication
• Old English: forlicgan — to engage in fornication
• Old English: hæman — to engage in fornication
• Polish: cudzołożyć — to engage in fornication
• Portuguese: fornicar — to engage in fornication
• Russian: распу́тничать (raspútničatʹ) — to engage in fornication
• Russian: блуди́ть (bludítʹ) — to engage in fornication
• Russian: развра́тничать (razvrátničatʹ) — to engage in fornication
• Russian: прелюбоде́йствовать (preljubodéjstvovatʹ) — to engage in fornication
• Slovak: smilniť — to engage in fornication
• Spanish: fornicar — to engage in fornication
• Swedish: bedriva otukt — to engage in fornication
• Tagalog: makipagtalik — to engage in fornication