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Headword: *ki/naida
Adler number: kappa,1634
Translated headword: perversions
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
['Perversions';] and [sc. also attested is the related abstract noun] "perversion": [meaning] shamelessness.
[Note] that Chelidon used to be called Kleopatra's kinaidos.[1]
Greek Original:
*ki/naida: kai\ *kinaidi/a: h( a)naisxunti/a. o(/ti o( th=s *kleopa/tras ki/naidos *xelidw\n e)kalei=to.
Notes:
For kinaidos -- Latin cinaedus -- and its cognates see also kappa 1635. Since they are "etymologically mysterious" (K.J. Dover, Greek Homosexuality [London 1978] 17), connotations of movement (i.e. a connection with kinein) are possible but not certain. J. Davidson, Courtesans and Fishcakes (London 1997), argues strongly for relating this and associated terms to sexual appetites of any kind which focus on the anus. This and other possibilities are discussed by N. Fisher (Aeschines, Against Timarchos, translated with introduction and commentary: Oxford 2001) 45-49 and passim.
[1] From chi 185 (end).
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 2 December 2000@10:52:30.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added notes and keywords) on 28 August 2001@11:13:58.
David Whitehead (restorative and other cosmetics) on 9 July 2004@11:54:49.
David Whitehead on 25 February 2013@06:25:22.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; expanded a note) on 11 May 2020@08:10:29.

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