Copula

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 94

kop'u-ia, n. (Logic.) The word uniting the subject and predicate oi a proposition. — Cop'ulate, the -lat, v. t. To unite in sexual embrace. — Copula'tion, n. Act of coupling; coition.— Cop'ulative, -tiv, a. Serving to couDle. (Gram.) Uniting the sense as well as the words. — n. ( Gram.) A copulative conjunction. — Cop'ulatory, -to-rT, a. Pert, to, etc.; copulative.