From Middle English sodomite, sodomit, from Old French Sodomite and Latin sodomīta, from Ancient Greek σοδομίτης.

sodomite (plural sodomites)

1. (derogatory) One who practices sodomy; a sodomist.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Deuteronomy 23:17 ↗:

     There ſhalbe no whoꝛe of the daughters of Iſrael, noꝛ a Sodomite of the ſonnes of Iſrael.

2. A native or inhabitant of Sodom.

• sodomitess
• sodomitic
• sodomitical
• sodomy

• French: sodomite
• German: Sodomit
• Italian: sodomita
• Portuguese: sodomita
• Russian: содоми́т

From Sodom + -ite.

• (British) IPA: /ˈsɒ.də.maɪt/
• (America, caught-cot) IPA: /ˈsɑ.də.maɪt/

sodomite (plural sodomites)

1. An inhabitant of Sodom, or (by extension) a descendant of one.
   • 2012, Samar Habib, Female Homosexuality in the Middle East, chapter 3

     The story of the people of Lot related in the Quran is often taken to mean that God condemns sodomites