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“coagulate” in Latin

The English word coagulate itself goes back to Latin cōgō, through coāgulātus.

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

coagulate
INTR., coire (to run together, and thus coagulate); concrescere (to coagulate by growing, as it were, together): congelari: se congelari (by becoming cold: of any liquid): coagnlari (PROP., to be made to coagulate by means of rennet, of milk, etc.; then generally of any liquid): lac gelatum, concretum. TR., coagulare (by rennet): congelare (by cold; used also intransitively by Ovid, Ister congelat).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for coagulate?
The usual Latin words for “coagulate” are coeō, concrēscō, congelō; also coāgulō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.