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Contents:
- GAY (ADJ.)
- THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
- GAY
- ROOT WORD HOMO HOMOSEXUAL? IS THERE A WORD LIKE MISANDRY SPECIFILLY FOR GAY MEN? [CLOSED]
- HOW TO SAY GAY LAT
GAY (ADJ.)
GAY Meang: "full of joy, merry; light-hearted, reee;" also "wanton, lewd, lasciv" (late 12c. as a surname,… See orig and meang of gay. * gay latin root meaning *
Gay ts were severely and celly abed by "real" tramps and bums, who nsired them "an ferr orr of begs who begs of and otherwise preys upon the bum — as were a jackal followg up the kg of beasts" [Prof.
THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’
* gay latin root meaning *
In "Soclogy and Social Rearch" (1932-33) a paragraph on the "gay t" phenomenon not, "Homosexual practic are more mon than rare this group, " and gey t "homosexual boy" is attted Noel Erske's 1933 dictnary of "Unrworld & Prison Slang" (gey is a Sttish variant of gay) "Dictnary of Amerin Slang" reports that gay (adj. early 14th century, Dante, “Canto I”, Inferno, l 64–66:Quando viddi ctui nel gran disertoMiserere di me gridai ad luiqual che tu sii o ombra o homo certoWhen I saw him the vast sert, I cried unto him "Have py on me, whichever you are, or shadow or real man!
Fortune mak men shortsighted, fatuat them: fortuna es hom effic, animos ocetmy most timate acquatance: homo tim, faiarissim miho be every one's mouth: ore omnium or omnib (homum or homib, but only mihi, tibi, etc.
GAY
18)many men, many mds: quot hom, tot sententiaewh the memory of man: post homum memoriamwh the memory of man: post hom natoslearned, scientific, lerary men: hom lteram studsilearned, scientific, lerary men: hom doctia man of learng; a scholar; a savant: vir or homo doct, lteratfor a Roman he is cidly well ted: sunt illo, ut home Romano, multae lterae (De Sen.
33)an acplished dialectician: homo dialecticis versatissimmoral science; ethics: philosophia, qua bonis reb et malis, que homum va et morib disputatura nscient historian: homo historia diligensa sger, member of a choir: (homo) symphoniaca w; a joker: (homo) ridicul (Plt. 21)a man of no self-ntrol, self-dulgent: homo impotens suia man of no self-ntrol, self-dulgent: homo efenat, temperansa moral (immoral) man: homo bene (male) morata praved, abandoned character: homo perda man of character, wh a strong personaly: vir nstans, gravis (opp.
ROOT WORD HOMO HOMOSEXUAL? IS THERE A WORD LIKE MISANDRY SPECIFILLY FOR GAY MEN? [CLOSED]
) gerentan experienced polician: homo re publi exercata parvenu (a man no member of whose fay has held cule office): homo novpeople of every rank: hom omnis generispeople of every rank and age: hom omnium ordum et aetatumone of the people: homo plebei, plebea popular man: rae popularis homo (Liv.
HOW TO SAY GAY LAT
Havelock Ellis, "Studi Psychology, " 1897]Sexual versn (1883, later simply versn, by 1895) was an earlier clil term for "homosexualy" English, said by Ellis to have origated Italian psychology wrg.
By the 1970s, the term ‘gay man’ had bee firmly entrenched s current meang, referrg only to ‘homosexual men’, which was a far cry om jt a hundred years earlier, when meant ‘womaniser’ or ‘sexually unhibed man’. From Middle English gay, om Old French gai (“joyful, lghg, merry”), ually thought to be a borrowg of Old Occan gai (“impetuo, lively”), om Gothic *?????? (*gaheis, “impetuo”), mergg wh earlier Old French jai ("merry"; see jay), om Frankish *gāhi;[1] both om Proto-Germanic *ganhuz, *ganhwaz (“sudn”).