Sodomite

Definition: Sodomite

Sodomite

Noun

1. Someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male).

Date "sodomite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Synonyms: Sodomite

Synonyms: bugger (n), sod (n), sodomist (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Sodomite

Specialty definitions using "sodomite": BACK GAMMON PLAYER. (references)

Etymologies containing "sodomite": sodomy. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Sodomite" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (sodomite).

Domain	Title
Books	The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire 1660-1750 (Between Men--Between Women) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Sodomite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sodomite" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	16	87,710

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "sodomite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pederast (bugger, fag, pederast, queer, sod), njeri pervers. (various references)

Arabic		‏اللوطي (bugger, homosexualist, sodomist). (various references)

Bulgarian		содомит, педераст (bugger, fag, faggot, fagot, homosexual, pansy, pederast, pouf, quean, queen, queer, sod, swish). (various references)

French		sodomite. (various references)

Greek		σοδομίτησ, παιδεραστήσ (pederast), αρσενοκοίτησ (homosexual, pansy), ομοφιλόφιλοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		ס�"ומאי (bugger, homosexual, pederast, sodomise). (various references)

Hungarian		szodomita (buggery, sodomist). (various references)

Manx		sodomagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		odomitesay

Portuguese		sodomita (sod), pederasta (bugger, pederast). (various references)

Romanian		sodomit (paederast), pederast (paederast, pederast, queer). (various references)

Russian		гомосексуалист (fairy, gay, homo, homosexual, invert, poofter, queer, urning). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sodomljanin, sodomit. (various references)

Spanish		sodomita (bugger, sodomist). (various references)

Swedish		sodomit (bugger). (various references)

Turkish		oğlancı (bugger, paederast, pederast, sod), homoseksüel (camp, fruit, gay, homo, homoerotic, homophile, homosexual, invert, pederast, poof, queen, queer, sod, swish). (various references)

Ukrainian		гомосексуаліст (homosexual, pansy, queer), мешканець содому, педераст (paederast, pederast). (various references)

Welsh		gwrywgydiwr (catamite). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	admissarii, admissarius. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sodomite": sodomites. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "sodomite" (pronounced 'Sod"om*ite'): Abderite, Abietite, Accite, Aciculite, Aconite, Acquisite, Acrite, Adamite, Adiaphorite, Aerolite, Aerosiderite, Agalmatolite, Albertite, Albite, Allanite, Allochroite, Alunite, Ambrite, Ammite, Ammonite, Ampelite, Analcite, Andalusite, Andesite, Anglesite, Anhydrite, Ankerite, Anorthite, Anorthosite, Antholite, Anthophyllite, Anthraconite, Anthropolite, Anthropomorphite, Anthropopathite, Anthropophagite, Antimonite, Apatite, Aphanite, Aphrite, Apophyllite, Apotactite, Appetite, Apposite, Aragonite, Archimandrite, Arenicolite, Areopagite, Argentite, Argillite. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: moodiest.
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-m-o-o-s-t"
	-1 letter: distome, modiste, osteoid.
	-2 letters: demits, misted, modest, mooted, ootids, otiose, somite, sooted, todies.
	-3 letters: deism, deist, demit, demos, diets, dimes, disme, dites, doest, doits, domes, dooms, dotes, edits, eidos, emits, items, metis, midst, misdo, mites, modes, moist, moods, mooed, moose, moots, moste, motes, odist, omits, ootid, sited, smite, smote, sodom, stied, stime, stood.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-m-o-o-s-t"
	+1 letter: demotions, dolomites, motorised, sodomites.
	+2 letters: composited, dictyosome, meteoroids, odometries.
	+3 letters: commodities, demolitions, dichotomies, dictyosomes, dolomitizes, dormitories, endomitoses, endomitosis, lobotomised, moderations, nondomestic, outpromised, sextodecimo, somatomedin.
	+4 letters: deformations, demonologist, denominators, diatomaceous, dichotomizes, discomforted, endosymbiont, etymologised, micromethods, nondomestics, sextodecimos, somatomedins, spermatozoid.
	+5 letters: aldosteronism, commendations, condemnations, decomposition, demodulations, demolitionist, demonizations, demonologists, demonstration, denominations, dermatologies, dermatologist, domestication, endometrioses, endometriosis, endosymbionts, endosymbiotic, endotheliomas, gonadectomies, hemodilutions, homoscedastic, immoderations, incommodities, mastoidectomy, methodologies, methodologist, midafternoons, mispositioned, misunderstood, moderatorship, modernisation, postmodernism, postmodernist, sedimentology, semiconductor, spermatozoids, timberdoodles.
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