NABOKV-L post 0011380, Sat, 23 Apr 2005 08:22:51 -0700

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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:40:23 +0100
From: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
Reply-To: Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello <jansy@aetern.us>
Subject: Fw: pedagogia/douglas harper online dictionary
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum

Dear Don,
I don´t know if this note I´m adding here is pertinent in our Nabokov-L debate.
And yet, after I had wondered about the word "Rast" and got answers about
"pederasty" where it was confused with "pedophily" I thought it might be
profitable to mail. I got it from an online dictionary ( Douglas Harper as I
understood it to be signed )
The "rast" in pederast has a beautiful Greek origin: erasthai ( love ).

Online dictionary clarification:

pederasty: "sodomy with a boy," 1609, from Mod.L. pæderastia, from Gk.
paiderastia "love of boys," from paiderastes "pederast," from pais (gen.
paidos) "child, boy" + erastes "lover," from erasthai "to love." Pederast is
1730s, from Fr. pédéraste, from Gk. paiderastes.
pedagogy: 1387, "schoolmaster, teacher," from O.Fr. pedagogue "teacher of
children," from L. paedagogus "slave who escorted children to school and
generally supervised them," later "a teacher," from Gk. paidagogos, from pais
(gen. paidos) "child" + agogos "leader," from agein "to lead". Hostile
implications in the word are at least from the time of Pepys. Pedagogy is 1583
from M.Fr. pédagogie, from Gk. paidagogia "education, attendance on children,"
from paidagogos "teacher."
pedophilia: 1905, from Gk. pais (gen. paidos) "child" + philos "loving." First
attested in Havelock Ellis. Derivative noun pedophile is first recorded 1951.

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