sodomy

sodomy
\ \ [13] The term sodomy commemorates the ancient Palestinian city of Sodom, which according to the Bible was a hotbed of unnatural vice (‘But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter. And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him.
\ \ And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof’, Genesis 19:4–8). Anal intercourse and allied practices were known in late Latin as peccātum Sodomīticum ‘sin of Sodom’, and from this was coined the medieval Latin term sodomia – whence English sodomy.
\ \ The abusive sod [19] is short for the related sodomite [14].

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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  • sodomy — sod·omy / sä də mē/ n [Anglo French sodomie sexual intercourse between men, from Old French, from Late Latin Sodoma Sodom, from the supposed homosexual practices of the men of the city in Genesis 19:1 11]: the crime of oral or anal sexual contact …   Law dictionary

  • Sodomy — Sod om*y, n. [From Sodom. a country mentioned in the Bible: cf. F. sodomite.] Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery. Gen. xix. 5. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • sodomy — c.1300, from O.Fr. sodomie, from L.L. peccatum Sodomiticum anal sex, lit. sin of Sodom, from L. Sodoma (see SODOM (Cf. Sodom)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • sodomy — ► NOUN ▪ anal intercourse. DERIVATIVES sodomize (also sodomise) verb. ORIGIN from Latin peccatum Sodomiticum sin of Sodom (after the Book of Genesis chapter 19, which implies that the men of the town of Sodom in ancient Palestine practised… …   English terms dictionary

  • sodomy — [säd′əmē] n. [ME sodomie < Sodome, SODOM] any sexual intercourse held to be abnormal; specif., a) bestiality b) anal intercourse, esp. between two male persons …   English World dictionary

  • Sodomy — François Elluin, Sodomites provoking the wrath of God, from Le pot pourri de Loth (1781). Sodomy (pronounced …   Wikipedia

  • sodomy — sodomitical /sod euh mit i keuhl/, sodomitic, adj. sodomitically, adv. /sod euh mee/, n. 1. anal or oral copulation with a member of the opposite sex. 2. copulation with a member of the same sex. 3. bestiality (def. 4). [1250 1300; ME sodomie …   Universalium

  • sodomy — n. to commit, practice sodomy * * * [ sɒdəmɪ] practice sodomy to commit …   Combinatory dictionary

  • sodomy — [13] The term sodomy commemorates the ancient Palestinian city of Sodom, which according to the Bible was a hotbed of unnatural vice (‘But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • sodomy — [[t]sɒ̱dəmi[/t]] N UNCOUNT Sodomy is anal sexual intercourse, especially between men …   English dictionary

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