παιδοφιλία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

παιδόφῐλος (paidóphĭlos, “loving children”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pai̯.do.pʰi.lí.aː/ → /pɛ.ðo.ɸiˈli.a/ → /pe.ðo.fiˈli.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pai̯.do.pʰi.lí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pɛ.do.pʰiˈli.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pɛ.ðo.ɸiˈli.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pe.ðo.fiˈli.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pe.ðo.fiˈli.a/

Noun

παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱ • (paidophĭlĭ́ā) f (genitive παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. (Byzantine) love of children

Declension

First declension of ἡ παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱ; τῆς παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱ hē paidophĭlĭ́ā	τὼ παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱ tṑ paidophĭlĭ́ā	αἱ παιδοφῐλῐ́αι hai paidophĭlĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱς tês paidophĭlĭ́ās	τοῖν παιδοφῐλῐ́αιν toîn paidophĭlĭ́ain	τῶν παιδοφῐλῐῶν tôn paidophĭlĭôn
Dative	τῇ παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾳ têi paidophĭlĭ́āi	τοῖν παιδοφῐλῐ́αιν toîn paidophĭlĭ́ain	ταῖς παιδοφῐλῐ́αις taîs paidophĭlĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱν tḕn paidophĭlĭ́ān	τὼ παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱ tṑ paidophĭlĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱς tā̀s paidophĭlĭ́ās
Vocative	παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱ paidophĭlĭ́ā	παιδοφῐλῐ́ᾱ paidophĭlĭ́ā	παιδοφῐλῐ́αι paidophĭlĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Danish: pædofili
• → French: pédophilie
  • → Romanian: pedofilie
• → German: Pädophilie
  • → English: pedophilia
  • → Russian: педофилия (pedofilija)
• → Latin: paedophilia

Further reading

• παιδοφιλία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• παιδοφιλία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften