Pathic

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈpaθɪk/

Origin

From Latin pathicus, from Ancient Greek παθικός, from πάθος (pathos, "suffering”, “feeling"), from πάσχω (paskho, "I feel”, “I suffer").

Full definition of pathic

Noun

1. The passive male partner in anal intercourse.
• 1810, Lord Byron, letter (to Henry Drury), 3 May 1810:In England the vices in fashion are whoring & drinking, in Turkey, Sodomy & smoking, we prefer a girl and a bottle, they a pipe and pathic.
• 1959: William Burroughs, Naked LunchAnd enough of these gooey saints with a look of pathic dismay as if they getting fucked up the ass and try not to pay any mind.
• 1975: Robertson Davies, World of WondersBut in those days I was Paul Dempster, who had been made to forget it and take a name from the side of a barn, and be the pathic of a perverted drug-taker.
• 1976: Robert Nye, FalstaffClermont (known to his friends as Cordelia) was a nancy, a pathic, a male varlet, a masculine whore.

Adjective

1. passive; suffering

Anagrams

• haptic
• phatic