erotic

See also: eròtic

English

Etymology

From French érotique, from Ancient Greek ἐρωτικός (erōtikós, “related to love”), from ἔρως (érōs, “sexual love”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɑtɪk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɒtɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɒtɪk

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

erotic (comparative more erotic, superlative most erotic)

1. Relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.

   Synonyms: amatory, arousing, sensual, sexy

   erotic entertainment and services

   I had an erotic dream last night.

   There's a local cinema that only shows erotic movies.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 49:

     The brain of a calf, sheep, and pig, young and served fresh, is reputedly erotic in its effects.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 88:

     Later ages contributed their own epichorial and distinctive manner to these universal delights in the erotic. In China, The Golden Lotus is an amazing sustained achievement.

Derived terms

• erotic bakery
• erotic capital
• erotic transference
• semi-erotic
• techno-erotic

Related terms

• alloerotic
• anal-erotic
• antierotic
• autoerotic
• cybererotic
• eroduction
• erotica
• erotical
• erotically
• erotic capital
• eroticisation
• eroticise, eroticize
• eroticism
• eroticist
• eroticization
• erotic massage
• erotomania
• erotosexual
• heteroerotic
• homoerotic
• nonerotic
• pseudoerotic
• psychoerotic
• semierotic
• sexuoerotic
• supererotic
• unerotic

Translations

tending to arouse sexual desire

• Albanian: erotik (sq)
• Arabic: شَبَقِيّ (šabaqiyy), جِنْسِيّ (jinsiyy), غَزَلِيّ (ḡazaliyy), غَرَامِيّ (ḡarāmiyy), عِشْقِيّ (ʕišqiyy), شَهْوَانِيّ (šahwāniyy)
• Asturian: eróticu
• Azerbaijani: erotik, şəhvani
• Belarusian: эраты́чны (eratýčny)
• Bulgarian: ероти́чен (bg) (erotíčen)
• Catalan: eròtic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 色情的 (zh) (sèqíng de), 引起性欲的 (yǐnqǐ xìngyù de), 性愛的 / 性爱的 (zh) (xìng'ài de)

• Czech: erotický (cs)
• Danish: erotisk
• Dutch: erotisch (nl)
• Esperanto: erotika
• Estonian: erootiline
• Finnish: eroottinen (fi), aistillinen (fi)
• French: érotique (fr)
• Friulian: erotic
• Galician: erótico (gl)
• Georgian: ეროტიკული (eroṭiḳuli)
• German: erotisch (de)
• Greek: ερωτικός (el) (erotikós)

  Ancient Greek: ἐρωτικός (erōtikós)

• Hebrew: אֶרוֹטִי (he) m (erotí), אֶרוֹטִית f (erotít)
• Hindi: कामुक (hi) (kāmuk), शृंगारिक (śŕṅgārik), इश्क़िया (iśqiyā)
• Hungarian: erotikus (hu)
• Icelandic: erótískur
• Ido: erotika (io)
• Indonesian: erotis (id)
• Interlingua: erotic
• Irish: earótach, anghrách
• Italian: erotico (it)
• Japanese: エロチックな (ja) (erochikku na), 色っぽい (ja) (いろっぽい, iroppoi), エロ (ja) (ero), エロい (ja) (eroy)
• Korean: 사랑적 (sarangjeok), 성적(性的) (ko) (seongjeok), 에로 (ero)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: erotîk (ku), şehwetî (ku), seksî (ku), pornografîk (ku)

• Latvian: erotisks
• Lithuanian: erotinis, erotiškas
• Macedonian: еротски (erotski)
• Manx: an-ghraagh
• Marathi: कामुक (kāmuk)
• Norman: érotique
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: erotisk

  Nynorsk: erotisk

• Occitan: erotic (oc)
• Persian: اروتیکی (erotiki), اروتیک (erotik), شهوانی (fa) (šahvâni)
• Polish: erotyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: erótico (pt)
• Romanian: erotic (ro)
• Russian: эроти́ческий (ru) (erotíčeskij), эроти́чный (ru) (erotíčnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: drùis-mhiannach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: еро̀тичан, ѐротскӣ

  Latin: eròtičan (sh), èrotskī (sh)

• Slovak: erotický
• Slovene: erótičen
• Spanish: erótico (es), sicalíptico (es)
• Swedish: erotisk (sv)
• Turkish: erotik (tr), kösnül (tr), şehvetli (tr), şehvani (tr), şehevi (tr), erosal (tr), erosçu (tr)
• Ukrainian: ероти́чний (erotýčnyj)
• Urdu: عشقیہ ('iśqiyā), شہوانی (śahvānī)
• Uzbek: erotik (uz), shahvoniy (uz)
• Vietnamese: tình ái (vi), tình dục (vi), khiêu dâm (vi)
• Yiddish: עראָטיש (erotish)

Noun

erotic (plural erotics)

1. An amorous composition or poem.

Further reading

• “erotic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “erotic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “erotic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• ictero-, tercio

Friulian

Adjective

erotic

1. erotic

Occitan

Pronunciation

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Adjective

erotic m (feminine singular erotica, masculine plural erotics, feminine plural eroticas)

1. erotic

Related terms

• erotisme

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006), Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[1], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 417
• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[2], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 257

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French érotique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eˈrotik]

Adjective

erotic m or n (feminine singular erotică, masculine plural erotici, feminine/neuter plural erotice)

1. erotic

Declension

Declension of erotic

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	erotic		erotică		erotici	erotice
	definite	eroticul		erotica		eroticii	eroticele
genitive- dative	indefinite	erotic		erotice		erotici	erotice
	definite	eroticului		eroticei		eroticilor	eroticelor

Further reading

• “erotic”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026