noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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UK:/ˌpiː.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/
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Australian:/ˌpe.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/
US:/ˌpɛ.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/
US:/-ˈfi-/
US:/ˌpi-/
US:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
rhymes with -ɪliə
CMU ARPABET:P EH2 D AH0 F IH1 L Y AH0
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
Sexual attraction by adults and adolescents to children, specifically prepubescent children.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pedosexuality
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
a sexual attraction to children
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: paedophilia
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: paraphilia
History
Etymology
Adapted from German Pädophilie, bringing its spelling into conformity with pedo- (“child”) + -philia. Compare the Byzantine Greek παιδοφιλία (paidophilía, “love of children”).
Across languages
Translations
68 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Abkhaz:
ахәыҷыбзиабара
(axwəčʼəbzjabara)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Abkhaz:
апедофилиа
(apʼedofilja)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Armenian:
պեդոֆիլիա
(pedofilia)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Armenian:
մանկապղծություն
(mankapġcutʻyun)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Azerbaijani:
pedofiliya
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Belarusian:
педафілі́я
(pjedafilíja)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Bulgarian:
педофи́лия
(pedofílija)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Catalan:
pedofília
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Chinese Mandarin:
戀童癖 /恋童癖
(liàntóngpǐ)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Czech:
pedofilie
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Danish:
pædofili
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Dutch:
pedofilie
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Dutch:
knapenliefde
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Estonian:
pedofiilia
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Finnish:
pedofilia
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
French:
pédophilie
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Galician:
pedofilia
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Georgian:
პედოფილია
(ṗedopilia)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
German:
Pädophilie
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Greek:
παιδοφιλία
(paidofilía)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Greenlandic:
pedofili
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Hebrew:
פֶּדוֹפִילְיָה
(pedofílya)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Hungarian:
pedofília
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Indonesian:
pedofilia
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Irish:
péidifilia
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Italian:
pedofilia
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Italian:
paidofilia
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Japanese:
小児性愛
(shōniseiai)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Japanese:
児童性愛
(jidōseiai)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Japanese:
ペドフィリア
(pedofiria)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Japanese:
幼児好き
(yōjizuki)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Kazakh:
педофилия
(pedofiliä)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Korean:
소아성애증
(soaseong'aejeung)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Korean:
어린이성애증
(eoriniseong'aejeung)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Korean:
페도필리아
(pedopillia)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Kyrgyz:
педофилия
(pedofiliya)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Latin:
paedophilia
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Latvian:
pedofilija
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Lithuanian:
pedofilija
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Macedonian:
педофилија
(pedofilija)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Malay:
pedofilia
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Maltese:
pedofelija
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Norwegian Bokmål:
pedofili
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Persian:
پدوفیلی
(pedofili)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Persian:
کودککامی
(kudak-kâmi)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Polish:
pedofilia
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Portuguese:
pedofilia
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Romanian:
pedofilie
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Russian:
педофили́я
(pedofilíja)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Serbo-Croatian:
педофѝлија
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Serbo-Croatian:
pedofìlija
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Slovak:
pedofília
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Slovene:
pedofilija
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Spanish:
pedofilia
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Spanish:
paidofilia
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Swedish:
pedofili
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Tajik:
педофилия
(pedofiliya)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Turkish:
pedofili
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Turkish:
sübyancılık
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Ukrainian:
педофілі́я
(pedofilíja)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Urdu:
پیڈوفیلیا
(peḍofelyā)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Uzbek:
pedofiliya
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Vietnamese:
ái nhi
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Welsh:
pedoffilia
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Yiddish:
פּעדאָפֿיליע
(pedofilye)
— sexual feeling or desire by adults towards children
Finnish:
pedofilia
— (medicine) sexual feeling or desire by adults or older adolescents towards prepubescent children
Finnish:
pedofilia
— sexual acts between adults and children
Russian:
педофили́я
(pedofilíja)
— sexual acts between adults and children
