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coital

-) Adjective.

-) Pronunciation: kəʊɪtəl

-) Etymology: from coitus suffixed with -al. It is identical with Italian coitale, Spanish coital, and French coïtal. Coitus is the participle of Latin coire “to go together”, composed with co- (instead of cum = with) + ire “go”. 

-) Definition: relating to, or caused by, coitus.

The majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing, sweet-moaning, physical but not necessarily coital, relation with a girl-child, are innocuous, inadequate, passive, timid strangers… 

Nabokov… Lolita 1955

Coital Techniques in Marriage

Kinsey… Sexual Behavior… 1998

[…] variation in coital positions.

Kinsey… Sexual Behavior… 1998

They found orgasms from coitus to be less intense than orgasms from noncoital means. This finding was validated by Hite […], who found the clitorally stimulated orgasm to be more intense than the orgasm from coitus. Hite also found the coital orgasm to be more diffused throughout the body than was the locally intense clitoral orgasm.

Jerrold Greenberg… Human Sexuality 2007

-) English words derived from Latin ire are listed in this dictionary under the entry COITION.