catamite

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  • To make Pharos snub his wife again and turn to this perfumed little catamite -- to condemn Pella to lifelong humiliation ... —  The Silicon Mage
  • 'A catamite is a boy ... a prostitute boy lover. ' —  Penalty
  • Marc, old dear, you're not a bad sort for a catamite. " —  Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves
  • There are already those in the college who believe that I was Elias Barton's catamite, and might therefore have been involved in his death. " —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • "catamite" sense. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
 

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  1. Latin catamītus, from Catamītus, Ganymede, from Etruscan Catmite, from Greek Ganumēdēs.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from French catamite, from Latin catamitus, so called from Catamitus, -meitus, corrupt form of Ganymedes: see Ganymede.
 

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/ˈkætəmaɪt/
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