Catamite
//ˈkætəmaɪt// noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A boy or younger man in a homoerotic relationship with an older man.
"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
- 2 a boy who submits to a sexual relationship with a man wordnet
Verb
- 1 To engage in a homoerotic relationship involving a boy and an older man.
Example
More examples"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
Etymology
From Latin catamītus (“boy kept as a sexual partner”), from Catamītus, from Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌕𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌄 (catmite), from Ancient Greek Γανυμήδης (Ganumḗdēs, “Ganymede”), an attractive Trojan boy supposedly abducted to Mount Olympus by the god Zeus to become his cupbearer and lover. Doublet of Ganymede.
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