paedophilia

paedophilia (countable and uncountable, plural paedophilias)

1. Britain standard spelling of pedophilia.

• palaeophiid

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παιδοφιλία (paidophilía).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pae̯.doˈpʰi.li.a/, [päe̯d̪ɔˈpʰɪlʲiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pe.doˈfi.li.a/, [ped̪oˈfiːliä]

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.