eromenos means an adolescent boy who was loved by an older man, or was in an pedagogic relationship with him.
eromenos is pronounced /ɛˈɹəʊmɛnɒs/.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐρώμενος (erṓmenos, “beloved”).
noun
- An adolescent boy who was loved by an older man, or was in an pedagogic relationship with him.“In his early twenties the young aristocratic lover (erastes) took a teen-aged youth, the eromenos or beloved, to bond with and train before going on at about age thirty to matrimony and fatherhood.”