erotica
/ɪˈɹɒt.ɪkə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.02 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "There's a fine line between erotica and pornography."
- "In fact, eighteenth-century British erotica has been the subject of unremitting attention for the last two decades."
- "Rather a principal avenue of traffic and distribution of eroticas is the social network of age-peers ([…])."
- "Some films advertised as minor eroticas are so much in demand by the paying public and these have overshadowed the value of a few seminars which seem to draw only the scholars and the film theorists."
- "Tilson carries work by the late John Lennon, including lithographs, a few signed eroticas and republished drawings."
- "Though the poetic work of Bhikṣu Padmaśrī, Nāgarasarvasva is an erotica, the writer has not followed Vätsyāyana in his work, rather, he has followed Bharata Muni."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁rém-e-tider.? Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek ἐράω (eráō) Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek ἐρωτῐκός (erōtĭkós)der. Latin erōticabor. English erotica From neuter plural of Latin eroticus (“amatory”), from Ancient Greek ἐρωτικός (erōtikós). By surface analysis, erotic + -ica.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: eroticus, ἐρωτικός