coetus

coetus (uncountable)

1. Rare spelling of coitus.
   • 1907, Progress VII, page 70:

     Pulsatilla. — Cutting pain in the uterus; uterus sensitive to the touch during examination or coetus.

   • ante 1968, Karl Barth quoted in: Elizabeth Achtemeier’s The Committed Marriage (1976), page 160:

     Coetus without co-existence is demonic. What are you, you man and woman who are about to enter into sexual relations?

• Cuetos, cutose, escout

• coitus

From co- (“together”) +‎ itus (“going”), from eō (“I go”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoe̯.tus/, [ˈkoe̯t̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.tus/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːt̪us]

coetus m (genitive coetūs); fourth declension

1. union, meeting, interaction

   Synonyms: concilium, congressus, concursus, cōntiō, conventus

2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) group, society
   • 2009, Pope Benedict XVI, Anglicanorum Coetibus, Rome:

     Anglicanorum coetibus Spiritus Sanctus recentioribus temporibus lumen conciliavit ut efflagitarent se, prouti singulos et glomeratim, in plenam Catholicae Ecclesiae communionem recipi, quippe quam expostulationem Apostolica Sedes sane censuerit esse admittendam.

     Societas autem organis hierarchicis instructa et mysticum Christi Corpus, coetus adspectabilis et communitas spiritualis, Ecclesia terrestris et Ecclesia caelestibus bonis ditata, non ut duae res considerandae sunt, sed unam realitatem complexam efformant, quae humano et divino coalescit elemento.

Fourth-declension noun.

• “coetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coetus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cœtŭs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 335/1–2
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to shun society: hominum coetus, congressus fugere