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eromenoi

eromenoi is the plural of eromenos.

Meaning of eromenos

Noun

eromenos (plural eromenoi)

  1. (Ancient Greece) An 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

Questions about eromenoi

What is eromenoi the plural of?
Eromenoi is the plural of eromenos.

Words near eromenoi in the dictionary

  1. EROI
  2. EROIs
  3. erom
  4. Eromanga
  5. eromba
  6. eromenoi
  7. eromenos
  8. Erondu-Cymet syndrome
  9. Eronen syndrome
  10. Eroom's law
  11. eros

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