different between fornicate vs adultery

English

Etymology

From Latin fornic?tus, 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

• (Received Pronunciation), IPA^(key): /?f??.n?.k?t/
• (General American), IPA^(key): /?f??.n?.k?t/

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation), IPA^(key): /?f??.n??ke?t/
• (General American), IPA^(key): /?f??.n??ke?t/

Adjective

fornicate (comparative more fornicate, superlative most fornicate)

1. Shaped like an arch or vault; resembling a fornix.

Derived terms

• fornicated
• fornicate gyrus

Translations

Verb

fornicate (third-person singular simple present fornicates, present participle fornicating, simple past and past participle fornicated)

1. (intransitive) To engage in fornication; to have sex, especially illicit sex.

Synonyms

• have sex, make love, seduce; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Derived terms

• fornicated
• fornicator

Translations

Anagrams

• factioner, fornacite, refaction

Italian

Verb

fornicate

1. second-person plural present indicative of fornicare
2. second-person plural imperative of fornicare
3. feminine plural of fornicato

Anagrams

• conferita, farnetico, farneticò, inforcate, nefrotica

Latin

Participle

fornic?te

1. vocative masculine singular of fornic?tus

English

Etymology

From the Old French scholarly form adultere (“violation of conjugal faith”) (in Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons, 12c.), from Latin adulterium, from adulter. Replaced the older form avoutrie, from the popular Old French forms avouterie or aoulterie. Compare French adultère (“adultery”). Displaced Old English ?wbry?e. Not related to adult.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d?lt??i/

Noun

adultery (countable and uncountable, plural adulteries)

1. Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse.
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, De Cive

     So also that copulation which in one City is Matrimony, in another will be judged Adultery.

   • 2009 Garner's Modern American Usage page 22

     Under modern statutory law, some courts hold that the unmarried participant isn't guilty of adultery (that only the married participant is)

2. (biblical) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.
3. (biblical) Faithlessness in religion.
4. (obsolete) The fine and penalty formerly imposed for the offence of adultery.
5. (ecclesiastical) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
6. (political economy) Adulteration; corruption.
7. (obsolete) Injury; degradation; ruin.

Synonyms

• advowtry (obsolete)

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• adultery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• adultery in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.