pedicator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pēdīcātor (“sodomizer, assfucker”), equivalent to pedicate +‎ -or.

Noun

pedicator (plural pedicators)

1. (uncommon, dated) A person who takes the penetrating role in anal sex.
   • 1884, Friedrich Karl Forberg, translated by Viscount Julian Smithson M.A., Manual of classical Erotology, Manchester, page 77:

     Men preferred to be supposed pedicators rather than patients […]

   • 1904, Dr. Jacobus X., Crossways of sex: A study in eroto-pathology, volume 2, page 314:

     […] and the pedicator must proceed slowly and without brutality.

   • 2008, Kenneth Borris, “Sodomizing science: Codes, Patricio Tricasso, and the constitutional morphologies of Renaissance male same-sex lovers”, in George S. Rousseau and Kenneth Borris, editors, The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe, Guild Press, page 145:

     For this physiognomer, the cinaedus and pedicator are complementary aspects of what his contemporaries […] call “masculine love.”

Latin

Alternative forms

• paedīcātor

Etymology

From pēdīcō (“sodomize, assfuck, buttfuck”) +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [peː.diːˈkaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pe.diˈkaː.tor]

Noun

pēdīcātor m (genitive pēdīcātōris); third declension

1. sodomiser, assfucker, buttfucker (a man who engages in anal sex as the penetrator)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pēdīcātor	pēdīcātōrēs
genitive	pēdīcātōris	pēdīcātōrum
dative	pēdīcātōrī	pēdīcātōribus
accusative	pēdīcātōrem	pēdīcātōrēs
ablative	pēdīcātōre	pēdīcātōribus
vocative	pēdīcātor	pēdīcātōrēs

Synonyms

• (sodomite): pēdīcō

Related terms

• pēdīcō

References

• “pedicator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• pedicator in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016