coitio

cŏĭtĭo, ōnis, f. [coëo].

* I.

A coming or meeting together, a meeting:

prima coitio est acerrima,

Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 32.—

II.

Esp.

A.

A uniting, banding together.

1.

In gen. (rare):

societatis,

Dig. 17, 2, 70.—

2.

In partic., in a bad sense, a conspiracy, plot, coalition (several times in Cic. and Liv.;

elsewh. rare): suspitio coitionis,

Cic. Planc. 22, 53; id. Clu. 54, 148:

non factionibus modo nec per coitiones usitatas nobilibus, etc.,

Liv. 7, 32, 12; cf. id. 2, 35, 4; 3, 35, 9:

candidatorum consularium,

Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 5, § 16:

Memmii,

id. ib. 2, 14 (15), 4:

tribunorum,

Liv. 3, 65, 8:

facere,

Cic. Planc. 22, 53; Liv. 9, 26, 9:

dirimere,

Cic. Att. 4, 18, 3.—

B.

Sexual intercourse, coition (post-class. for coitus), Macr. S. 7, 16; Cod. Th. 15, 8, 2; Sol. 49 fin.; Lact. 1, 8, 6.