paedophilia

From paedo- +‎ -philia.

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paedophilia (countable and uncountable, plural paedophilias)

1. British standard spelling of pedophilia.
   • 2012 December 9, Paris Lees, “Transgender people get a status update”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Yes, really. Blanchard has expanded the DSM's "paraphilia" section (where crimes such as paedophilia and exhibitionism go) to include transvestic disorder.

• palaeophiid

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παιδοφιλία (paidophilía).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pae̯.dɔˈpʰɪ.li.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pe.d̪oˈfiː.li.a]

paedophilia f sg (genitive paedophiliae); first declension

1. (New Latin, uncountable, rare) pedophilia
   • 2007, Periodica de re canonica: Indices tertiae seriei (1982–2005), § 5, 101:

     Relatio h[omosexualis] inter et paedophiliam 91/52.

   • ibidem, 154:

     Paedophilia et efebophilia.

First-declension noun, singular only.