eromenos
/ɛˈɹəʊmɛnɒs/
eromenos noun: an adolescent boy who was loved by an older man, or was in an pedagogic relationship with him.
Noun
eromenos (plural eromenoi)
- 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
Forms of eromenos
| plural | eromenoi |
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Origin of eromenos
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐρώμενος (erṓmenos, “beloved”).
Questions about eromenos
- What does eromenos mean?
- Eromenos means an adolescent boy who was loved by an older man, or was in an pedagogic relationship with him.
- What part of speech is eromenos?
- Eromenos is a noun.
- How do you pronounce eromenos?
- Eromenos is pronounced /ɛˈɹəʊmɛnɒs/.
- What is the plural of eromenos?
- The plural of eromenos is eromenoi.
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