pederasty

English

Alternative forms

• paederasty (Commonwealth)
• pæderasty (Commonwealth, dated)

Etymology

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛd.ə.ɹəs.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛd.ə.ɹæs.ti/, /ˈpi.də.ɹæs.ti/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

pederasty (usually uncountable, plural pederasties) (American spelling)

1. Erotic love, sexually expressed or chaste, between a man and an adolescent boy.

   Antonym: (erotic love between a woman and a girl) korephilia

2. (archaic) Anal intercourse in general, usually between a man and an adolescent boy.

Usage notes

• 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 adult men on underage boys (see pedophilia).

Synonyms

• boylove (euphemistic)

Related terms

• pederast
• pederastic
• pedophile

Translations

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 (fa)
• 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 (sv) c
• Turkish: oğlancılık (tr)

archaic: homosexual anal sex — see sodomy