sodomite

From Middle English sodomyte, sodomite, from Old French Sodomite and Latin sodomīta, from Ancient Greek σοδομίτης (sodomítēs). Equivalent to Sodom +‎ -ite.

sodomite (plural sodomites)

1. (derogatory) One who practices sodomy; a sodomist.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 23:17:

     There ſhalbe no whoꝛe of the daughters of Iſrael, noꝛ a Sodomite of the ſonnes of Iſrael.

   • 1922, Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization‎^[1], page 113:

     The Avestan texts denounce the sodomite as a demon […]

   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 107:

     For example, when one of his programmers and her husband engaged in oral sex in their own bedroom one night, the next morning she was called into Rife's office, where he called her a slut and a sodomite and told her to clean out the desk.

2. A native or inhabitant of Sodom.

• sodomitry

• Sodomite

• doomiest, moodiest

Inherited from Old French Sodomite, from Latin sodomīta, from Ancient Greek σοδομίτης (sodomítēs).

• IPA^(key): /sɔ.dɔ.mit/

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sodomite m (plural sodomites)

1. sodomist, sodomite

• sodomie
• sodomiser

• “sodomite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

sodomite

1. alternative form of sodomyte