/ ˈkætəmaɪt; NAmE / noun
( old use ) a boy kept as a slave for a man to have sex with
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WORD ORIGIN
late 16th cent.: from Latin catamitus , via Etruscan from Greek Ganumēdēs , Ganymede, a Trojan youth who was so beautiful he was carried off to be Zeus' cup-bearer in Greek mythology.