Fornication

Noun

 * 1) sexual intercourse, especially on the part of an unmarried person.
 * 2)  The act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman which does not by law amount to adultery.
 * 1604 I am the sister of one Claudio, Condemn'd upon the act of fornication To lose his head; condemn'd by Angelo — Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 5, Scene 1
 * 1611 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. — Galatians 5:19-21 KJV

Derived terms

 * fornicatory

Thesaurus
act of love, adultery, aphrodisia, ass, balling, carnal knowledge, climax, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, commerce, concubinage, congress, connection, copula, copulation, coupling, criminal conversation, cuckoldry, diddling, extracurricular sex, extramarital relations, free love, free-lovism, incest, intercourse, intimacy, lovemaking, making it with, marital relations, marriage act, mating, meat, onanism, orgasm, ovum, pareunia, premarital relations, premarital sex, procreation, relations, screwing, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, sleeping with, sperm, venery

Etymology
Coined between 1300 and 1350 Middle English fornicacioun from Late Latin fornicātiōn- (s. of fornicātiō).

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 亂倫, 乱伦, 通奸, 姦淫, 奸淫
 * French: fornication
 * German: Unzucht


 * Japanese: 姦淫
 * Korean: 간음 (姦淫)
 * Russian: блуд, внебрачная связь, прелюбодеяние


 * Russian: блуд