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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἄρσην (ársēn, “male”) and κοι-, o-grade stem of κεῖμαι (keîmai, “lie”), + -της (-tēs, masculine agentive suffix), thus “a male who lies with males”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ar.se.noˈcy.tis/ → /ar.se.noˈci.tis/
Noun
ἀρσενοκοίτης • (arsenokoítēs) m (genitive ἀρσενοκοίτου); first declension
- a male who has sexual intercourse with males, especially in a penetrative role
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀρσενοκοίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀρσενοκοίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀρσενοκοίτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἀρσενοκοίτης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G733 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἀρσενοκοίτης in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften