Eromenos

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛˈrəʊmÉ›nÉ’s/

Origin

From Ancient Greek ἐρώμενος (erōmenos, "beloved"), from ἐράω (eráō, "be in love with").

Full definition of eromenos

Noun

1. (historical, Greek history) An adolescent boy who was courted by an older man, or was in an erotic relationship with him.
• 1996, William Armstrong Percy III, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, University of Illinois Press (1998), ISBN 0-252-02209-2, 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.