# copulant
## English
### Etymology

From Latin cōpulāns.

### Noun

copulant (plural copulants)
* One engaged in sexual union.
** 1929 September, George K. K. Link, “Reproduction in Thallophytes, with special reference to fungi”, in The Botanical Gazette, volume 88, number 1:Those which produce copulable copulants in one individual are designated as monoecious, while those in which copulable copulants must come from different individuals are considered dioecious.
** 1959, The American Midland Naturalist - Volume 61, page 273:Concerning the copulation positions of Turbellaria in general, Hyman (1951a:127) stated, "Usually the copulants face more or less away from each other with the genital regions pressed together and often elevated, the rest of the body attached to the subtratum.
** 1993, Reproductive Biology of Invertebrates, Accessory Sex Glands, page 7:In some turbellarians and monogenetic trematodes, the sperm are first aggregated into spermatophores which are discharged into the fellow copulant (Hyman, 1951).
* Something that brings other things together into a unified whole.
** 1912, Emanuel Swedenborg, Alfred Acton, The Animal Kingdom, page 345:It is well known from chemistry that a fatty or oily element will not of itself unite with a watery, but must be united by means of saline copulants.
* (semiotics) A sign that represents the joining or unity of other signs.
** 1974, Charles Sanders Peirce ·, Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce - Volume 7, page 236:The copulants are likewise indispensable and have the property of being Continuant.
** 2016, Tony Jappy, Peirce’s Twenty-Eight Classes of Signs and the Philosophy of Representation:Since the classes are yielded by a static typology and not a dynamic process such as semiosis, it might be wiser to conceive the relation between subjects in terms of compatibility rather than state categorically that collectives determine copulants, for example: collectives are not only with the copulant, but also with the designative and descriptive facets of signs..
** 2017, Francesco Bellucci, Peirce's Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics:Examples of such continuous immediate objects, with respect to which a sign is said to be a copulant, include "_ is _," "if _ then _," "_ relatively to _ for _," "Whatever _," etc.

### Adjective

copulant (not comparable)
* (semiotics) Signifying combination, identity or union.
** 1989, Gérard Deledalle, Semiotics and Pragmatics, page 149:By virtue of Oi, namely the identity of the weather on that occasion, the sign expresses a distributive relation —to each situation of utterance there corresponds an identifiable weather type: the sign is therefore Copulant.
** 2017, Francesco Bellucci, Peirce's Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics:Copulant signs are, quite clearly, those signs whose immediate object is a continuous predicate.
** 2023, Tony Jappy, Developing a Neo-Peircean Approach to Signs, page 106:If the sign is copulant it is necessarily collective, and if it is an action-producing token, it is necessarily also categorical and percussive.

### References

* ↑ “copulant, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

## Catalan
### Verb

copulant
* gerund of copular

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ.py.lɑ̃/

### Participle

copulant
* present participle of copuler

## Latin
### Verb

cōpulant
* third-person plural present active indicative of cōpulō