pedophile

See also: pédophile

English

Alternative forms

• paedophile (British)
• pædophile (dated)

Etymology

From pedo- (“child”) +‎ -phile, after Ancient Greek παιδοφῐ́λης (paidophílēs) (from παῖς (paîs, “boy, child”) +‎ φιλέω (philéō, “I love”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: pēd'-ə-fīl', IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.dəˌfaɪl/

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• (US, Canada) enPR: pĕd'-ə-fīl', IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.dəˌfaɪl/, /ˈpɛ.doʊˌfaɪl/
• (General Australian) enPR: pĕd'-ə-fīl', IPA^(key): /ˈpe.dəˌfɑel/, /ˈpɛ.dəʉˌfɑel/

Noun

pedophile (plural pedophiles) (American spelling)

1. (psychiatry, sexology) A person aged 16 years old or older who is mostly or only sexually attracted toward prepubescent children. [from 20th c.]
   • 1982, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice Abstracts, volume 14, page 253:

     Apart from his sexual behavior, the pedophile is typically law abiding.

   • 1986, Patrick B. McGuigan, Jon S. Pascale, Crime and Punishment in Modern America, page 109:

     The pedophile, a particular type of child molester, is an adult whose conscious sexual interests and overt sexual behavior are directly either partially or exclusively toward children.

2. (by extension, common use) An adult who is sexually attracted to or engages in sexual acts with a child.

Usage notes

• In the US, the official psychiatric designation for pedophilia (according to the DSM-IV) is: "Over a period of at least six months, recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children."

Synonyms

• childlover (euphemistic)

Antonyms

• teleiophile

Hyponyms

• mysoped (“a sadistic pedophile”)
• korephile
• nepiophile

Derived terms

• paedophilophile (humorous)
• pedophile ring
• pedophilish
• predophile
• reverse pedophile

 

Related terms

• ephebophile
• hebephile
• pederast, paederast
• pedophilia, paedophilia
• pedophilic, paedophilic
• pedosexual; pedosexuality

 

Translations

an adult who is sexually attracted to children

• Albanian: pedofil m
• Armenian: մանկապիղծ (mankapiġc)
• Azerbaijani: pedofil
• Belarusian: педафі́л m (pjedafíl), педафі́лка f (pjedafílka)
• Bulgarian: педофи́л m (pedofíl), педофи́лка f (pedofílka)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 戀童癖患者／恋童癖患者 (lyun² tung⁴ pik¹ waan⁶ ze²), 金魚佬／金鱼佬 (gam¹ jyu⁴ lou²) (slang)

  Mandarin: 戀童癖患者／恋童癖患者 (liàntóngpǐ huànzhě)

• Czech: pedofil (cs) m
• Danish: pædofil c
• Dutch: pedofiel (nl) m
• Esperanto: pedofilo
• Estonian: pedofiil
• Finnish: pedofiili (fi)
• French: pédophile (fr) m or f
• Galician: pedófilo m, pedófila f
• Georgian: პედოფილი (ṗedopili)
• German: Pädophiler (de) m, Pädophile (de) f
• Greek: παιδεραστής (el) m (paiderastís)
• Hebrew: פֶּדוֹפִיל (he) m (pedofíl)
• Hungarian: pedofil (hu)
• Icelandic: barnaníðingur m
• Irish: péidifileach m
• Italian: pedofilo (it) m
• Japanese: 小児性愛者 (しょうにせいあいしゃ, shōniseiaisha), 小児愛者 (しょうにあいしゃ, shōniaisha), 幼児性愛者 (ようじせいあいしゃ, yōjiseiaisha), (slang) ロリコン (ja) (rorikon)
• Kazakh: педофил (pedofil)
• Korean: 소아 성애자(小兒性愛者) (soa seong'aeja)
• Kyrgyz: педофил (pedofil)
• Latvian: pedofils m
• Lithuanian: pedofilas m
• Macedonian: педофи́л m (pedofíl), педофи́лка f (pedofílka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pedofil m

• Polish: pedofil (pl) m
• Portuguese: pedófilo (pt) m, pedófila (pt) f
• Romanian: pedofil m, pedofilă f
• Russian: педофи́л (ru) m (pedofíl), педофи́лка (ru) f (pedofílka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: педо̀фӣл m, педофилка f

  Roman: pedòfīl (sh) m, pedofilka f

• Sicilian: pitòfilu m
• Slovak: pedofil m
• Slovene: pedofil m
• Spanish: pedófilo (es) m, pedófila f
• Swedish: pedofil (sv) c
• Turkish: sübyancı, pedofil
• Ukrainian: педофі́л m (pedofíl), педофі́лка f (pedofílka)
• Uzbek: pedofil
• Vietnamese: người ái nhi
• Walloon: margougneu d’ efant (wa) m