erotic
pronunciation
How to pronounce erotic in British English:
UK [ɪˈrɒtɪk]
How to pronounce erotic in American English:
US [ɪˈrɑtɪk]
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- Adjective:
- giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing
Word Origin
- erotic
- erotic: [17] Érōs was the Greek word for ‘sexual love’ (as opposed to agápē ‘brotherly love’ and philía ‘friendship’). The concept was personified in Greek mythology as Érōs, the boy-god of love. Its adjectival derivative erōtikós arrived in English via French érotique.
- erotic (adj.)
- 1650s, from French érotique (16c.), from Greek erotikos "caused by passionate love, referring to love," from eros (genitive erotos) "sexual love" (see Eros). Earlier form was erotical (1620s).
Example
- 1. For the first modernists , the erotic was self-evidently subversive .
- 2. Now it seems , a journey may be moving into erotic fiction .
- 3. Gaius valerius catullus is famed for his epicurean life style and erotic poems .
- 4. It is playful rather than erotic ; the kids seem both innocent and tough .
- 5. The works we discuss feature everything from russian melodrama to middle-aged erotic fiction to sharp-witted existentialism .