cinaedus Latin · revision 32588

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc κίναιδος}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɪˈnae̯.dʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [t͡ʃiˈnɛː.dus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cinaedus''' ''m'' (genitive cinaedī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Inscriptions at Pompeii spell it ''cinedus''.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|κίναιδος|tr=kínaidos|t=catamite; lewd dancer]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary notes that the Greek word first meant a foreign dancer whose act featured movements of the buttocks, and that it may come from a language of Asia Minor.^(Wiktionary) Nonius reports that the old writers called dancers and pantomimes by this name, deriving it from [[m|grc|κινέω|tr=kinéō|t=to move]], to move the body.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Plautus, whose ''Asinaria'' calls a man a curled cinaedus.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a man who submits to anal sex, a catamite, sometimes loosely an effeminate or luxurious man.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Lewis & Short cite Scipio Africanus through Gellius, Catullus, Petronius and Juvenal.^(Lewis & Short 1879) A glossary explains it as people who shake their buttocks in public, and another as those whom the Apostle called ⟨mollēs⟩.^(TLL) Martial applies it to Sotades, author of the obscene poems called Kinaidoi.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of a yellow sea fish.^(OLD 2012) As an adjective it means typical of a cinaedus, wanton.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Pompeian graffiti spell it ⟨cinedus⟩.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it as an insult.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 185/184–129 BC – Scipio Africanus the Younger uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of a sea fish.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial of Sotades.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|catamite]], a man who submits to anal sex; loosely, an [[m|en|effeminate]] man.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A sea fish.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Typical of a cinaedus, wanton, shameless.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cinaedicus]]

+ * [[cinaedulus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}