The story
- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromἐραστής“lover”
- English todayerastes
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐραστής (erastḗs, “lover”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
erastes
Today it means: An adult man who loved or was in a pedagogic relationship with an adolescent boy. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἐραστής