pedico

• paedīcō

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /peːˈdiː.koː/, [peːˈd̪iːkoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈdi.ko/, [peˈd̪iːko]

Widely considered to derive from Ancient Greek παιδῐκός (paidikós, “belonging to a (beloved) child”). Some notable sources that advocate for this etymology are Gerardus Vossius (Etymologicum Linguae Latinae, published 1662)[1], and Ernout and Meillet (who account for the long ī by appealing to analogy with pudīcus (“chaste, pure, undefiled”) as an antonym, comparing dēpudīcō "dishonor, violate")[2].

Based on the assumed derivation of the ē from Greek αι, the spelling paedico with the digraph ae, which is unattested in ancient inscriptions and transmitted manuscripts, came to be used during the Renaissance era in critical editions of Latin texts as an etymologizing spelling. More recent critical editions largely adopt the spelling with e.[3]

An alternative, less commonly accepted etymology derives the word instead from the same base as pōdex (“anus”) and pēdō (“to fart”).

pēdīcō (present infinitive pēdīcāre, perfect active pēdīcāvī, supine pēdīcātum); first conjugation, irregular short imperative

1. (transitive) I have anal sex with a man as a male sodomizer, buggerer
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 16.1:

     Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo.

     I will sodomize you and facefuck you.

   • 38 CE – 104 CE, Martial, Epigrammata IX.69:

     Cum pedicaris, quid, Polycharme, facis?

     When you get buggered, what, Polycharmus, do you do?

• pēdīcātor

From pēdīcō (“sodomize”) +‎ -ō.

pēdīcō m (genitive pēdīcōnis); third declension

1. sodomiser, buggerer
   • 38 CE – 104 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 9.33:

     Nīl miserābilius, Māthō, pēdīcōne Sabellō
     vīdistī, quō nīl laetius ante fuit.
     Fūrta, fugae, mortēs servōrum, incendia, luctūs
     afflīgunt hominem; iam miser et futuit.

     Nothing more miserable, Matho, than the sodomite Sabellus
     have you seen, than whom nothing was happier before.
     Robberies, fled slaves, deaths of servants, fires, bereavements
     have taken their toll on the man; now, poor thing, he even fornicates.

Third-declension noun.

• “pedico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paedico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette