cinaedus

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κίναιδος (kínaidos, “catamite”), originally referring to a non-Roman dancer whose performance featured movements of the buttocks. The word's ultimate origin may be from a language of Asia Minor.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

cinaedus m (genitive cinaedī); second declension

  1. (vulgar) buggeree (a male who engages in anal sex as the penetratee)
  2. catamite

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cinaedus cinaedī
genitive cinaedī cinaedōrum
dative cinaedō cinaedīs
accusative cinaedum cinaedōs
ablative cinaedō cinaedīs
vocative cinaede cinaedī

Descendants

  • Italian: cinedo

Adjective

cinaedus (feminine cinaeda, neuter cinaedum, comparative cinaedior); first/second-declension adjective

  1. unchaste; shameful; typical of a sodomite

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative cinaedus cinaeda cinaedum cinaedī cinaedae cinaeda
genitive cinaedī cinaedae cinaedī cinaedōrum cinaedārum cinaedōrum
dative cinaedō cinaedae cinaedō cinaedīs
accusative cinaedum cinaedam cinaedum cinaedōs cinaedās cinaeda
ablative cinaedō cinaedā cinaedō cinaedīs
vocative cinaede cinaeda cinaedum cinaedī cinaedae cinaeda

References

  1. ^ Craig Williams (1999) Roman Homosexuality, Oxford University Press, 1999, 2010, page 193

Further reading

  • “cinaedus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cinaedus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cinaedus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cinaedus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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