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English
Etymology
From pedo- (“child”) + -phile, after Ancient Greek παιδοφῐ́λης (paidophílēs) (from παῖς (paîs, “boy, child”) + φιλέω (philéō, “I love”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
pedophile (plural pedophiles) (American spelling)
- (psychiatry, sexology) An adult who is mostly or only sexually attracted toward prepubescent children.
1982, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice Abstracts, volume 14, page 253:Apart from his sexual behavior, the pedophile is typically law abiding.
1986, Patrick B. McGuigan, Jon S. Pascale, Crime and Punishment in Modern America, page 109:The pedophile, a particular type of child molester, is an adult whose conscious sexual interests and overt sexual behavior are directly either partially or exclusively toward children.
- (by extension, common use) An adult who is sexually attracted to or engages in sexual acts with a child.
Usage notes
- In the US, the official psychiatric designation for pedophilia (according to the DSM-IV) is: "Over a period of at least six months, recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children."
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an adult who is sexually attracted to children
- Albanian: pedofil m
- Armenian: մանկապիղծ (mankapiġc)
- Azerbaijani: pedofil
- Belarusian: педафі́л m (pjedafíl), педафі́лка f (pjedafílka)
- Bulgarian: педофи́л m (pedofíl), педофи́лка f (pedofílka)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 戀童癖患者/恋童癖患者 (lyun2 tung4 pik1 waan6 ze2), 金魚佬/金鱼佬 (gam1 jyu4 lou2) (slang)
- Mandarin: 戀童癖患者/恋童癖患者 (liàntóngpǐ huànzhě)
- Czech: pedofil (cs) m
- Danish: pædofil c
- Dutch: pedofiel (nl) m
- Esperanto: pedofilo
- Estonian: pedofiil
- Finnish: pedofiili (fi)
- French: pédophile (fr) m or f
- Galician: pedófilo m, pedófila f
- Georgian: პედოფილი (ṗedopili)
- German: Pädophiler (de) m, Pädophile (de) f
- Greek: παιδεραστής (el) m (paiderastís)
- Hebrew: פֶּדוֹפִיל (he) m (pedofíl)
- Hungarian: pedofil (hu)
- Icelandic: barnaníðingur m
- Irish: péidifileach m
- Italian: pedofilo (it) m
- Japanese: 小児性愛者 (しょうにせいあいしゃ, shōniseiaisha), 小児愛者 (しょうにあいしゃ, shōniaisha), 幼児性愛者 (ようじせいあいしゃ, yōjiseiaisha), (slang) ロリコン (ja) (rorikon)
- Kazakh: педофил (pedofil)
- Korean: 소아 성애자(小兒性愛者) (soa seong'aeja)
- Kyrgyz: педофил (pedofil)
- Latvian: pedofils m
- Lithuanian: pedofilas m
- Macedonian: педофи́л m (pedofíl), педофи́лка f (pedofílka)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: pedofil m
- Polish: pedofil (pl) m
- Portuguese: pedófilo (pt) m, pedófila (pt) f
- Romanian: pedofil m, pedofilă f
- Russian: педофи́л (ru) m (pedofíl), педофи́лка (ru) f (pedofílka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: педо̀фӣл m, педофилка f
- Roman: pedòfīl (sh) m, pedofilka f
- Sicilian: pitòfilu m
- Slovak: pedofil m
- Slovene: pedofil m
- Spanish: pedófilo (es) m, pedófila f
- Swedish: pedofil (sv) c, peddo (sv) n (colloquial, derogatory)
- Turkish: sübyancı, pedofil
- Ukrainian: педофі́л m (pedofíl), педофі́лка f (pedofílka)
- Uzbek: pedofil
- Vietnamese: người ái nhi
- Walloon: margougneu d’ efant (wa) m
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