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Etymology
From Greek ���μενο� �beloved�, from ε�αν �be in love with�.

Pronunciation
IPA|/��r��m�n�s/

Noun
en-noun|eromeno|i

1. (Greek History) A young man that is pursued sexually by an older man.

#:*1996: 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. � William Armstrong Percy, Pederasty and Pedagogy in Ancient Greece (Illinois 1998, p. 1)

See also
erastes

ru:eromenos

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