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Etymology
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek παιδεραστία (paiderastía, “love of boys”), from παιδεραστής (paiderastḗs, “pederast”), from παῖς (paîs, “child, son, boy”) + ἐραστής (erastḗs, “lover”), from ἔραμαι (éramai, “to love”).
Pronunciation
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- (UK): IPA(key): /ˈpɛd.ə.ɹəs.ti/
- (US): IPA(key): /ˈpɛd.ə.ɹæs.ti/, /ˈpi.də.ɹæs.ti/
pederasty (usually uncountable, plural pederasties)
- Erotic love, sexually expressed or chaste, between a man and an adolescent boy.
- Antonym: (erotic love between a woman and a girl) korephilia
- (archaic) Anal intercourse in general, usually between a man and an adolescent boy.
Usage notes
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- Originally referred to formal practices mandated by Greek customs and laws. Often used in a modern sense for either lawful or transgressive inter-generational love relationships.
- Often used colloquially to describe sexual abuse that is perpetrated by adults on pre-pubescent boys (see pedophilia).
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pederasty
- Armenian: պեդիկացիա (pedikacʻia), արվամոլություն (hy) (arvamolutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: pederastiya, oğlanbazlıq
- Bengali: পেডেরাস্টি (peḍerasṭi)
- Breton: pederastiezh
- Bulgarian: педерастия f (pederastija)
- Catalan: pederàstia f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 雞姦/鸡奸 (zh) (jījiān), 男色 (zh) (nánsè), 好男色 (hàonánsè), 孌童戀/娈童恋 (luántóngliàn), 少年愛/少年爱 (shàonián'ài)
- Czech: pederastie (cs) f
- Danish: pæderasti c
- Dutch: knapenliefde (nl) f, knapenschennis f
- Estonian: pederastia
- Finnish: pederastia (fi)
- French: pédérastie (fr) f
- Georgian: პედერასტია (ṗederasṭia), მამათმავლობა (mamatmavloba)
- German: Päderastie (de) f
- Greek: παιδεραστία (el) f (paiderastía)
- Ancient: παιδεραστίᾱ f (paiderastíā)
- Hebrew: פֶּדֶרַסְטְיָה f (pederastya)
- Ido: pederasteso (io)
- Indonesian: perjantanan (id)
- Irish: péidearastacht f
- Italian: pederastia f
- Japanese: 少年愛 (しょうねんあい, shōnen'ai), 少年愛嗜好 (しょうねんあいしこう, shōnen'aishikō)
- Lithuanian: pederastija f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: pederasti
- Persian: بچهبازی
- Polish: efebofilia f, (historical) pederastia (pl) f
- Portuguese: pederastia (pt) f
- Romanian: pederastie (ro) f
- Russian: педерасти́я (ru) f (pederastíja), мужело́жство (ru) n (muželóžstvo)
- Slovak: pederastia f
- Spanish: pederastia (es) f
- Swedish: pederasti c
- Turkish: oğlancılık (tr)
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archaic: homosexual anal sex
— see sodomy