transvestite
English
/tɹænzˈvɛstaɪt/
noun
Definitions
- A person who sometimes wears clothes traditionally worn by and associated with the opposite sex; typically a male who cross-dresses occasionally by habit or personal choice.
- (clinical psychology) A person, typically a heterosexual male, who compulsively seeks and derives paraphilic sexual arousal from cross-dressing, especially if the urges and behavior cause the patient distress or social impairment.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin trans (across, beyond, over, through) borrowed from German Transvestitismus.
Origin
German (Berlin)
Transvestitismus
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Transrhenane English
- Transylvania English
- tralineate English
- transduce English
- transfretation English
- transit English
- transude English
- transvestism English
- transvestitism English
- *ad trans Latin
- silvam Latin
- trans Latin
- transfundo Latin
- transgredior Latin
- transpirare Latin
- transpiratio Latin
- transpirationem, transpiratio Latin
- transpiro, transpirare Latin
- transpono Latin
- transscendo Latin
- transverto Latin
- trānspārēntem, trānspārēns Latin
- trānspārēntis, trānspārēns Latin
- vertere Latin
- Transvestitismus German
- traforare Italian
- trans French
- *dewk- Proto-Indo-European
- traverser Old French
- tregeter Old French
- tres- Old French
- tra Esperanto
- trans Esperanto
- Nistru Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- Transnistria Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- *trānts Proto-Italic