Etymology

pederosis

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Today it means: sexual impulse directed towards children; paedophilia Full definition →

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The story

From pedo- (“child”) + eros (“love”) + -osis (“disease, condition”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.