paedophilia

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See also: pædophilia

English[edit]

Noun[edit]

paedophilia (countable and uncountable, plural paedophilias)

  1. Britain standard spelling of pedophilia.

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παιδοφιλία (paidophilía).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

paedophilia f sg (genitive paedophiliae); first declension

  1. (New Latin, uncountable, rare) pedophilia
    • 2007, Periodica de re canonica: Indices tertiae seriei (1982–2005), § 5, 101:
      Relatio h[omosexualis] inter et paedophiliam 91/52.
    • ibidem, 154:
      Paedophilia et efebophilia.

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative paedophilia
Genitive paedophiliae
Dative paedophiliae
Accusative paedophiliam
Ablative paedophiliā
Vocative paedophilia