eromenos

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐρώμενος (erṓmenos, “beloved”), from ἐράω (eráō, “to love”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈɹəʊmɛnɒs/

Noun

eromenos (plural eromenoi)

1. (historical) An adolescent boy in Ancient Greece who was courted by an older man, or was in an erotic relationship with him.
   • 1996, William Armstrong Percy III, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, University of Illinois Press (1998), →ISBN, page 1:

     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.

Coordinate terms

• erastes

Anagrams

• nemorose