catamite

American  

[kat-uh-mahyt] / ˈkæt əˌmaɪt /

noun

1. a boy or youth who is in a sexual relationship with a man.

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catamite British  

/ ˈkætəˌmaɪt /

noun

1. a boy kept for homosexual purposes

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Etymology

Origin of catamite

1585–95; < Latin Catamītus < Etruscan Catmite < Greek Ganymḗdēs Ganymede

Example Sentences

“It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.”

From Nature

He quoted an Oxford historian, Colin Lucas, giving the colourful detail that the monarch "enjoyed a reign of dissolution with his catamite, Piers Gaveston" at the palace.

From The Guardian

"It was the afternoon of my 81st birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."

From The Guardian