cinaedus

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]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɪˈnae̯.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃiˈnɛː.d̪us]

cinaedus m (genitive cinaedī); second declension

1. (vulgar) buggeree (a male who engages in anal sex as the penetratee)
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 16.1–2:

     Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo / Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi.

     I will sodomize you and facefuck you, / bottom Aurelius and catamite Furius.

2. catamite

Second-declension noun.

• Italian: cinedo

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

1. unchaste; shameful; typical of a sodomite

First/second-declension adjective.

• “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.