cinaedus, i, m., = κίναιδος. He who practises unnatural lust, a sodomite, catamite, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 37; id. Aul. 3, 2, 8; id. Poen. 5, 5, 40; Scip. Afric. ap. Gell. 7, 12, 5; Cat. 16, 2; 25, 1; Petr. 21, 2; Juv. 2, 10; 14, 30 al.

— Adj.: cinaedus, a, um, wanton, unchaste: ut decuit cinaediorem, Cat. 10, 24.

—Trop., impudent, shameless: homo cinaedā fronte, Mart. 6, 39, 12.

— Hence, He who performs a wanton dance, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 73; Lucil. ap. Non. p. 5, 31.

— The name of a sea-fish, Plin. 33, 11, 53, § 146.