eromenos

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/ɛˈɹəʊmɛnɒs/

noun

An adolescent boy who was loved by an older man, or was in an pedagogic relationship with him.

OriginAncient Greek ἐρώμενος →
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Meanings

nouneromenos (plural eromenoi)

plural eromenoi

  1. Ancient GreeceAn adolescent boy who was loved by an older man, or was in an pedagogic relationship with him.

    In his early twenties the young aristocratic lover (erastes) took a teen-aged youth, the eromenos or beloved, to bond with and train before going on at about age thirty to matrimony and fatherhood.

    1996, William Armstrong Percy III, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, University of Illinois Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 1

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekἐρώμενος“beloved”
  2. Englisheromenos

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐρώμενος (erṓmenos, “beloved”).

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Translations

French éromène
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Swedish eromenos
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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

nemorose
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Chicago

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