ephebe
See also: éphèbe
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Via Latin ephēbus, from Ancient Greek ἔφηβος (éphēbos, “adolescent”), from ἐπί (epí, “early”) + ἥβη (hḗbē, “manhood”), late 19th c.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ephebe (plural ephebes)
- (historical) An 18- to 20-year-old man in ancient Greece undergoing military training.
- (by extension) A young man; a youth.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 190:
- His glance touched their faces lightly as he smiled, a blond ephebe. Tame essence of [Oscar] Wilde.
- 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:
- Indeed Tom was much still the ephebe, sharing boys with his friend though talking of the gravity of marriage.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “ephebe”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]ephēbe m
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