polycule
A polyamorous group of individuals connected by their overlapping romantic, sexual, or platonic relationships.
Noun
- A polyamorous group of individuals connected by their overlapping romantic, sexual, or platonic relationships.
- Our polycule doubled in size when my spouse started seeing Boris, whose husband has six other partners.
- The five of us started calling ourselves a "polycule" back in the fall of 2012, when our relationships and sexual lives were so thoroughly entangled with one another that we looked like several relationship atoms often...
- While nonmonogamy doesn't always mean having multiple partners, Ezra's polycule comprises multiple sexual partners. - 2018 November 16, Josephine Yurcaba, “Ezra Miller Discussed Polyamory and Past Abuse”, in Teen Vogue,...
Synonyms: constellation pod
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *h₃émh₃ti Proto-Italic *amō Latin amō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin amor Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ieder. Middle English -ie Middle English -y English -y English polyamory Latin mōlēs Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Proto-Italic *-kelos New Latin -cula New Latin moleculalbor. French moléculebor. English molecule blend English polycule Blend of polyamory + molecule. First attested in the 2010s.