erotic

See also: eròtic

English

Etymology

From French érotique, from Ancient Greek ἐρωτικός (erōtikós, “related to love”), from ἔρως (érōs, “sexual love”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɑtɪk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɒtɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɒtɪk

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

erotic (comparative more erotic, superlative most erotic)

1. Relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.

   Synonyms: amatory, arousing, sensual, sexy

   erotic entertainment and services

   I had an erotic dream last night.

   There's a local cinema that only shows erotic movies.

Derived terms

• erotic bakery
• erotic capital
• erotic transference
• semi-erotic
• techno-erotic

Related terms

• alloerotic
• anal-erotic
• antierotic
• autoerotic
• cybererotic
• eroduction
• erotica
• erotical
• erotically
• erotic capital
• eroticisation
• eroticise, eroticize
• eroticism
• eroticist
• eroticization
• erotic massage
• erotomania
• erotosexual
• heteroerotic
• homoerotic
• nonerotic
• pseudoerotic
• psychoerotic
• semierotic
• sexuoerotic
• supererotic
• unerotic

Translations

tending to arouse sexual desire

Albanian: erotik (sq) Arabic: شَبَقِيّ (šabaqiyy), جِنْسِيّ (jinsiyy), غَزَلِيّ (ḡazaliyy), غَرَامِيّ (ḡarāmiyy), عِشْقِيّ (ʕišqiyy), شَهْوَانِيّ (šahwāniyy) Asturian: eróticu Azerbaijani: erotik, şəhvani Belarusian: эраты́чны (eratýčny) Bulgarian: ероти́чен (bg) (erotíčen) Catalan: eròtic (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 色情的 (zh) (sèqíng de), 引起性欲的 (yǐnqǐ xìngyù de), 性愛的 / 性爱的 (zh) (xìng'ài de) Czech: erotický (cs) Danish: erotisk Dutch: erotisch (nl) Esperanto: erotika Estonian: erootiline Finnish: eroottinen (fi), aistillinen (fi) French: érotique (fr) Friulian: erotic Galician: erótico (gl) Georgian: ეროტიკული (eroṭiḳuli) German: erotisch (de) Greek: ερωτικός (el) (erotikós) Ancient: ἐρωτικός (erōtikós) Hebrew: אֶרוֹטִי (he) m (erotí), אֶרוֹטִית f (erotít) Hindi: कामुक (hi) (kāmuk), शृंगारिक (śŕṅgārik), इश्क़िया (iśqiyā) Hungarian: erotikus (hu) Icelandic: erótískur Ido: erotika (io) Indonesian: erotis (id) Interlingua: erotic Irish: earótach, anghrách Italian: erotico (it) Japanese: エロチックな (ja) (erochikku na), 色っぽい (ja) (いろっぽい, iroppoi), エロ (ja) (ero), エロい (ja) (eroy) Korean: 사랑적 (sarangjeok), 성적(性的) (ko) (seongjeok), 에로 (ero) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: erotîk (ku), şehwetî (ku), seksî (ku), pornografîk (ku) Latvian: erotisks Lithuanian: erotinis, erotiškas Macedonian: еротски (erotski) Manx: an-ghraagh Marathi: कामुक (kāmuk) Norman: érotique Norwegian: Bokmål: erotisk Nynorsk: erotisk Occitan: erotic (oc) Persian: اروتیکی (erotiki), اروتیک (erotik), شهوانی (fa) (šahvâni) Polish: erotyczny (pl) Portuguese: erótico (pt) Romanian: erotic (ro) Russian: эроти́ческий (ru) (erotíčeskij), эроти́чный (ru) (erotíčnyj) Scottish Gaelic: drùis-mhiannach Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: еро̀тичан, ѐротскӣ Roman: eròtičan (sh), èrotskī (sh) Slovak: erotický Slovene: erótičen Spanish: erótico (es) Swedish: erotisk (sv) Turkish: erotik (tr), kösnül (tr), şehvetli (tr), şehvani (tr), şehevi (tr), erosal (tr), erosçu (tr) Ukrainian: ероти́чний (erotýčnyj) Urdu: عشقیہ ('iśqiyā), شہوانی (śahvānī) Uzbek: erotik (uz), shahvoniy (uz) Vietnamese: tình ái (vi), tình dục (vi) Yiddish: עראָטיש (erotish)

Noun

erotic (plural erotics)

1. An amorous composition or poem.

Further reading

• “erotic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “erotic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “erotic”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• ictero-, tercio

Friulian

Adjective

erotic

1. erotic

Occitan

Pronunciation

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Adjective

erotic m (feminine singular erotica, masculine plural erotics, feminine plural eroticas)

1. erotic

Related terms

• erotisme

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 417.
• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 257.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French érotique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eˈrotik]

Adjective

erotic m or n (feminine singular erotică, masculine plural erotici, feminine and neuter plural erotice)

1. erotic

Declension

Declension of erotic

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	erotic		erotică		erotici	erotice
	definite	eroticul		erotica		eroticii	eroticele
genitive- dative	indefinite	erotic		erotice		erotici	erotice
	definite	eroticului		eroticei		eroticilor	eroticelor

Further reading

• erotic in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)