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catamite

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈkætəmaɪt/

Definition of catamite

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

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.”
    “And what about your brother? – Is he to be a catamite?”
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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.”
    “And what about your brother? – Is he to be a catamite?”

verb

  1. To engage in a homoerotic relationship involving a boy and an older man.

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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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