Etymology
From Latin fornicātus, perfect passive participle to fornicor, 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.
Pronunciation
- Adjective
- Verb
Verb
fornicate (third-person singular simple present fornicates, present participle fornicating, simple past and past participle fornicated)
- (intransitive) To engage in fornication.
Translations
to engage in fornication
- Arabic: زَنَى (ar) (zanā)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܙܵܢܹܐ (zane)
- Bulgarian: развра́тнича (bg) (razvrátniča)
- Catalan: fornicar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 通姦 / 通奸 (zh) (tōngjiān)
- Czech: smilnit impf
- Esperanto: forniki
- Finnish: käydä vieraissa (fi)
- French: forniquer (fr)
- Galician: fornicar
- German: Unzucht treiben
- Hebrew: זָנָה (he) (zaná)
- Hungarian: paráználkodik (hu)
- Ido: fornikar (io)
- Italian: fornicare (it), copulare (it), accoppiarsi (it), fare l'amore (it)
- Japanese: 姦淫する (ja) (かんいんする, kan'in suru)
- Korean: 간통하다 (ko) (gantonghada)
- Latin: fornicor
- Malay: sanggama, senggama, amput
- Maori: kaikaiātara, moepuku
- Occitan: fornicar
- Old English: forlicgan, hæman
- Polish: cudzołożyć (pl) impf
- Portuguese: fornicar (pt)
- Russian: распу́тничать (ru) impf (raspútničatʹ), блуди́ть (ru) impf (bludítʹ), развра́тничать (ru) impf (razvrátničatʹ), прелюбоде́йствовать (ru) impf (preljubodéjstvovatʹ)
- Slovak: smilniť impf
- Spanish: fornicar (es)
- Tagalog: makipagtalik
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