amasius

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Definition of amasius

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noun

  1. (literary)A male paramour, typically in extramarital or illicit contexts; (Ancient Rome) a male prostitute.
    “Ovid hath a witty fiction of one Phyllius, who fell ſo deeply in love with a little boy, that at his pleaſure he took many wilde Beaſts, Birds, and Lions, and tamed them to the delight of his Amaſius: at length the inſatiable Boy required him to do the like by a Bull, which he had overcome, but Phyllius denying that requeſt, the Boy preſently caſt himſelf down from a Rock, and was afterward turned into a Swan.”

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Etymology

From the Latin amāsius (“a male lover”).

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