παιδοφιλία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

παιδόφῐλος (paidóphilos, “loving children”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pai̯.do.pʰi.lí.aː/ → /pɛ.ðo.ɸiˈli.a/ → /pe.ðo.fiˈli.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pai̯.do.pʰi.lí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pɛ.do.pʰiˈli.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pɛ.ðo.ɸiˈli.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pe.ðo.fiˈli.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pe.ðo.fiˈli.a/

Noun

παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱ • (paidophilíā) f (genitive παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. (Byzantine) love of children

Declension

First declension of ἡ παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱ; τῆς παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱ hē paidophilíā	τὼ παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱ tṑ paidophilíā	αἱ παιδοφῐλῐ́αι hai paidophilíai
Genitive	τῆς παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱς tês paidophilíās	τοῖν παιδοφῐλῐ́αιν toîn paidophilíain	τῶν παιδοφῐλῐῶν tôn paidophiliôn
Dative	τῇ παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾳ têi paidophilíāi	τοῖν παιδοφῐλῐ́αιν toîn paidophilíain	ταῖς παιδοφῐλῐ́αις taîs paidophilíais
Accusative	τὴν παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱν tḕn paidophilíān	τὼ παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱ tṑ paidophilíā	τᾱ̀ς παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱς tā̀s paidophilíās
Vocative	παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱ paidophilíā	παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱ paidophilíā	παιδοφῐλῐ́αι paidophilíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Danish: pædofili
• → French: pédophilie
  • → Romanian: pedofilie
• → German: Pädophilie
  • → English: pedophilia
  • → Russian: педофилия (pedofilija)
• → Latin: paedophilia

Further reading

• παιδοφιλία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• παιδοφιλία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften