eromenos
English edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐρώμενος (erṓmenos, “beloved”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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.
- Coordinate term: erastes
- 1996, William Armstrong Percy III, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, University of Illinois Press, published 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.