cinaedus

== 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. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɪˈnae̯.dʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃiˈnɛː.dus] === Noun === cinaedus m (genitive cinaedī); second declension (Vulgar Latin) buggeree (a male who engages in anal sex as the penetratee) catamite ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Italian: cinedo === Adjective === cinaedus (feminine cinaeda, neuter cinaedum, comparative cinaedior); first/second-declension adjective unchaste; shameful; typical of a sodomite ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === References === === 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, 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.