cinaedus

Latin

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kiˈnae̯.dus/, [kɪˈnäe̯d̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈne.dus/, [t͡ʃiˈnɛːd̪us]

Noun

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

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cinaedus	cinaedī
genitive	cinaedī	cinaedōrum
dative	cinaedō	cinaedīs
accusative	cinaedum	cinaedōs
ablative	cinaedō	cinaedīs
vocative	cinaede	cinaedī

Descendants

• Italian: cinedo

Adjective

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

1. unchaste; shameful; typical of a sodomite

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cinaedus	cinaeda	cinaedum		cinaedī	cinaedae	cinaeda
genitive	cinaedī	cinaedae	cinaedī		cinaedōrum	cinaedārum	cinaedōrum
dative	cinaedō	cinaedae	cinaedō		cinaedīs
accusative	cinaedum	cinaedam	cinaedum		cinaedōs	cinaedās	cinaeda
ablative	cinaedō	cinaedā	cinaedō		cinaedīs
vocative	cinaede	cinaeda	cinaedum		cinaedī	cinaedae	cinaeda

Further reading

• “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.