éraste
French, noun/e.ʁast/
éraste is spelled É-R-A-S-T-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 173,977th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Éraste is a French masculine noun meaning “erastes (adult man who loved or was in a pedagogic relationship with an adolescent boy)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Adulte engagé dans un couple pédérastique avec un adolescent, appelé éromène”.
What does éraste mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineerastes (adult man who loved or was in a pedagogic relationship with an adolescent boy)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Adulte engagé dans un couple pédérastique avec un adolescent, appelé éromène.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of éraste
- érastes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce éraste?
- /e.ʁast/
- \e.ʁast\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to éraste
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is éraste in French?
éraste appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).