eromenos

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐρώμενος (erṓmenos, “beloved”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈɹəʊmɛnɒs/

eromenos (plural eromenoi)

1. (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.

• nemorose