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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. According to Archigenes it is a Classical Syriac word, while Beekes prefers a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kí.nai̯.dos/ → /ˈci.nɛ.ðos/ → /ˈci.ne.ðos/
Noun
κῐ́ναιδος • (kínaidos) m (genitive κῐναίδου); second declension
- cinaedus, catamite
- Synonyms: βάταλος (bátalos), λάσταυρος (lástauros), μαρικᾶς (marikâs)
- (in general) lewd fellow
- public dancer
- (in the plural) obscene poems
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Further reading
- “κίναιδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κίναιδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κίναιδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κί̆ναιδος (kínaidos, “catamite, lewd fellow”).
Noun
κίναιδος • (kínaidos) m (plural κίναιδοι)
- (derogatory) homosexual, gay
- Synonyms: ομοφυλόφιλος (omofylófilos), πούστης (poústis)
- Antonym: ετεροφυλόφιλος (eterofylófilos)
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