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catamite

English

Etymology

From Latin catam?tus (“boy kept as a sexual partner”), from Catam?tus, from Etruscan ???????????????????????????? (catmite), from Ancient Greek ????????? (Ganum?d?s, “Ganymede”), an attractive Trojan boy supposedly abducted to Mount Olympus by the god Zeus to become his cupbearer and lover. Doublet of Ganymede.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?kæt?ma?t/
Hyphenation: cat?a?mite

Noun

catamite (plural catamites)

A boy or younger man in a homoerotic relationship with an older man. [1552]
- 2007 July 4, Mere Smith, Rome, “Heroes of the Republic”:
  Lyde: And what about your brother? – Is he to be a catamite?

Synonyms

punk, gunsel; see also Thesaurus:male homosexual

Derived terms

catamitism

Translations

References

“catamite, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2018

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