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The word pรฉdรฉraste has two distinct translations depending on whether you look at its historical roots or its modern use in the French language. [1, 2]

## 1. Modern French Translation: "Homosexual" or "Gay"

In everyday, modern French speech, pรฉdรฉraste (and its shortened form pรฉdรฉ) functions simply as a slang term for a homosexual or gay man. [3]

 

  • When used as an insult, it translates directly to the English slur "faggot".

  • When the manager in the court case sent the text, they were using it in this modern sense to refer to a gay man. [4, 5]

 

## 2. Historical and Etymological Translation: "Lover of Boys"

If you translate the word literally based on its ancient origins, it means something entirely different. The French word pรฉdรฉraste was borrowed from the Ancient Greek word paiderastฤ“s: [6, 7]

 

  • Pais (pait-) translates to "child" or "boy".

  • Erastฤ“s translates to "lover". [1, 6, 8]

 

In ancient Greece, this referred to a socially accepted, structured relationship between an adult man and an adolescent male youth. Over the centuries, as the word moved through Latin and into French, the specific age component of the definition fell out of favor. By the 19th and 20th centuries, French speakers began using pรฉdรฉraste as a general, baseline term for any gay man. [3, 9, 10, 11, 12]

 

[1] https://www.reddit.com

[2] https://journals.openedition.org

[3] https://files.libcom.org

[4] https://www.hrw.org

[5] https://www.reddit.com

[6] https://en.wiktionary.org

[7] https://cooljugator.com

[8] https://www.etymonline.com

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org

[10] https://honors.libraries.psu.edu

[11] https://french.stackexchange.com

[12] https://www.etymonline.com