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cat·a·mite    Audio Help   [kat-uh-mahyt] Pronunciation Key
–noun
a boy or youth who is in a sexual relationship with a man.

[Origin: 1585–95; < L Catamītus < Etruscan Catmite < Gk Ganymdés Ganymede]
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cat·a·mite    Audio Help   (kāt'ə-mīt')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A boy who has a sexual relationship with a man.


[Latin catamītus, from Catamītus, Ganymede, from Etruscan Catmite, from Greek Ganumēdēs.]

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catamite 
1593, from L. Catamitus, corruption of Ganymedes, the beloved cup-bearer of Jupiter.

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catamite

noun
a boy who submits to a sexual relationship with a man 

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Catamite

Cat"a*mite\, n. [L. Catamitus, an old form of Ganymedes Ganymede, Gr. ?.] A boy kept for unnatural purposes.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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