pæderast

English

Noun

pæderast (plural pæderasts)

  1. Dated spelling of pederast.
    • 1900, Henry Johns Berkley, A Treatise on Mental Diseases, D. Appleton and Company, page 272:
      In this form also sexual perversions predominate; signs are made by persons in a crowd that he is a pæderast, an onanist, that he is impotent.

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παιδεραστής (paiderastḗs, lover of boys), from παῖς (paîs, boy) and ἐραστής (erastḗs, lover).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛdərast/, [pʰɛd̥əˈʁɑsd̥]

Noun

pæderast c (singular definite pæderasten, plural indefinite pæderaster)

  1. pederast (practitioner of pederasty)

Inflection

Declension of pæderast
common
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative pæderast pæderasten pæderaster pæderasterne
genitive pæderasts pæderastens pæderasters pæderasternes

See also