pathic

== English == === Etymology === From Latin pathicus, from Ancient Greek παθικός (pathikós), from πάθος (páthos, “suffering, feeling”), from πάσχω (páskhō, “to feel, to suffer”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpæθɪk/ Rhymes: -æθɪk === Noun === pathic (plural pathics) (now literary) Synonym of bottom: a passive usually-male partner in homosexual anal intercourse. 1810, Lord Byron, letter (to Henry Drury), 3 May 1810: In England the vices in fashion are whoring & drinking, in Turkey, Sodomy & smoking, we prefer a girl and a bottle, they a pipe and pathic. ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === pathic (comparative more pathic, superlative most pathic) Passive; suffering. Relating to disease. === References === “pathic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === haptic, phatic