eromenos
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐρώμενος (erṓmenos, “beloved”), from ἐράω (eráō, “to love”).
Pronunciation
Noun
eromenos (plural eromenoi)
- (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.
- 1996, William Armstrong Percy III, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, University of Illinois Press (1998), →ISBN, page 1: