[SeekAndFind]

I have always wondered how the English word got the term: “Sodomy” from? From whence was it derived? Latin?

And if it were Latin, how did the Latin speakers think of using that word?

[Cicero]

It derives from Old French, which derives from Latin, which in turn derives from Hebrew. Anal copulation, the “sin of Sodom.”

Here’s the explanation from Dictionary.com:

sodomy

c.1300, from O.Fr. sodomie, from L.L. peccatum Sodomiticum “anal sex,” lit. “sin of Sodom,” from L. Sodoma, ult. from Heb. s’dom “Sodom,” morally corrupt city in ancient Palestine, said to have been destroyed, with neighboring Gomorrah, by fire from heaven (Gen. xviii-xix). Sodomize coined 1868. In Du.