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English
Etymology
From French érotique, from Ancient Greek ἐρωτικός (erōtikós, “related to love”), from ἔρως (érōs, “sexual love”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
erotic (comparative more erotic, superlative most erotic)
- Relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.
- Synonyms: amatory, arousing, sensual, sexy
erotic entertainment and services
I had an erotic dream last night.
There's a local cinema that only shows erotic movies.
Derived terms
Translations
tending to arouse sexual desire
- Albanian: erotik (sq)
- Arabic: شَبَقِيّ (šabaqiyy), جِنْسِيّ (jinsiyy), غَزَلِيّ (ḡazaliyy), غَرَامِيّ (ḡarāmiyy), عِشْقِيّ (ʕišqiyy), شَهْوَانِيّ (šahwāniyy)
- Asturian: eróticu
- Azerbaijani: erotik, şəhvani
- Belarusian: эраты́чны (eratýčny)
- Bulgarian: ероти́чен (bg) (erotíčen)
- Catalan: eròtic (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 色情的 (zh) (sèqíng de), 引起性欲的 (yǐnqǐ xìngyù de), 性愛的／性爱的 (zh) (xìng'ài de)
- Czech: erotický (cs)
- Danish: erotisk
- Dutch: erotisch (nl)
- Esperanto: erotika
- Estonian: erootiline
- Finnish: eroottinen (fi), aistillinen (fi)
- French: érotique (fr)
- Friulian: erotic
- Galician: erótico (gl)
- Georgian: ეროტიკული (eroṭiḳuli)
- German: erotisch (de)
- Greek: ερωτικός (el) (erotikós)
- Ancient: ἐρωτικός (erōtikós)
- Hebrew: אֶרוֹטִי (he) m (erotí), אֶרוֹטִית f (erotít)
- Hindi: कामुक (hi) (kāmuk), शृंगारिक (śŕṅgārik), इश्क़िया (iśqiyā)
- Hungarian: erotikus (hu)
- Icelandic: erótískur
- Ido: erotika (io)
- Indonesian: erotis (id)
- Interlingua: erotic
- Irish: earótach, anghrách
- Italian: erotico (it)
- Japanese: エロチックな (ja) (erochikku na), 色っぽい (ja) (いろっぽい, iroppoi)
- Korean: 사랑적 (sarangjeok), 성적(性的) (ko) (seongjeok), 에로 (ero)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: erotîk (ku), şehwetî (ku), seksî (ku), pornografîk (ku)
- Latvian: erotisks
- Lithuanian: erotinis, erotiškas
- Macedonian: еротски (erotski)
- Manx: an-ghraagh
- Marathi: कामुक (kāmuk)
- Norman: érotique
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: erotisk
- Nynorsk: erotisk
- Occitan: erotic (oc)
- Persian: اروتیکی (erotiki), اروتیک (erotik), شهوانی (fa) (šahvâni)
- Polish: erotyczny (pl)
- Portuguese: erótico (pt)
- Romanian: erotic (ro)
- Russian: эроти́ческий (ru) (erotíčeskij), эроти́чный (ru) (erotíčnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: drùis-mhiannach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: еро̀тичан, ѐротскӣ
- Roman: eròtičan (sh), èrotskī (sh)
- Slovak: erotický
- Slovene: erótičen
- Spanish: erótico (es)
- Swedish: erotisk (sv)
- Turkish: erotik (tr), kösnül (tr), şehvetli (tr), şehvani (tr), şehevi (tr), erosal (tr), erosçu (tr)
- Ukrainian: ероти́чний (erotýčnyj)
- Urdu: عشقیہ ('iśqiyā), شہوانی (śahvānī)
- Uzbek: erotik (uz), shahvoniy (uz)
- Vietnamese: tình ái (vi), tình dục (vi)
- Yiddish: עראָטיש (erotish)
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Noun
erotic (plural erotics)
- An amorous composition or poem.
Further reading
- “erotic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “erotic”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “erotic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Friulian
Adjective
erotic
- erotic
Occitan
Pronunciation
Adjective
erotic m (feminine singular erotica, masculine plural erotics, feminine plural eroticas)
- erotic
Further reading
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 417.
- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 257.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French érotique.
Pronunciation
Adjective
erotic m or n (feminine singular erotică, masculine plural erotici, feminine and neuter plural erotice)
- erotic
Declension
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