transvestite
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 易装癖者
- adj.
- 爱穿异性服装的，易装癖的
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 借自 ←拉丁语 trāns
- 借自 ←德语 Transvestitismus
词源说明
Borrowed from Latin trāns + vestītus, form of vestiō (“to clothe, to 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).
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
- (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.
- (clinical psychology, psychiatry, pathology) A person, typically a heterosexual male, who compulsively seeks and derives paraphilic sexual arousal