transvestite

Significat (Anglès)

1. (dated) 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.
2. 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.
3. (dated) An animal that engages in sexual mimicry.

Conceptes

transvestit

transformista

Sinònims

cross-dresser

effeminate

transvestic

homosexual

queer

gay

crossdresser

tranny

berdache

hermaphrodite

Traduccions

travesti

Transvestit

travesti

travestiet

travestito

travesti

travestido

τραβεστί

travestí

travesti

transformista

travestista

المتخنّث

karşı cins gibi giyinen ve davranan kimse

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/tɹænzˈvɛstaɪt/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Borrowed from Latin trāns + vestītus, form of vestiō (“I clothe, I dress”) (as in English vestment, vest). Literally, a "cross-dresser". From transvestitism, from German Transvestitismus, coined in 1910 by Magnus Hirschfeld (the practice itself is much older).