Etymology

shotacon

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Today it means: Attraction (often erotic) to shotas (young or young-looking boys) in fiction. Full definition →

Japanese ショタコン (shotakon) ← English Lolita complex ← French complexe
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The story

  1. Japanese正太郎
  2. Proto-Indo-European*delh₁-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dolh₁éyeti
  4. Proto-Italic*doleō
  5. Latindoleō
  6. Latindolor
  7. Old Spanishdolor
  8. Spanishdolor
  9. Spanishdolores
  10. SpanishDolores
  11. SpanishLola
  12. SpanishLolita
  13. EnglishLolita
  14. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  15. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  16. Proto-Italic*kom
  17. Proto-Italic*kom-
  18. Latincon-
  19. Proto-Indo-European*pel-
  20. Proto-Indo-European*pleḱ-
  21. Proto-Italic*plektō
  22. Latinplectō
  23. Latincomplector
  24. Latincomplexu
  25. Frenchcomplexe
  26. Englishcomplex
  27. EnglishLolita complex
  28. Japaneseロリータ・コンプレックス
  29. Japanese正太郎 コンプレックスabbr.
  30. Japaneseショタコン (shotakon)
  31. English todayshotacon

From Japanese ショタコン (shotakon). By surface analysis, shota + -con (“abnormal sexual attraction”).

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