But the creepy “Uncle Terry” pedo act is beginning to wear awfully thin.
Martial professes to be of the school of Catullus, pedo, and Marsus, and admits his inferiority only to the first.
before vowels ped-, word-forming element meaning "boy, child," from Greek pedo-, comb. form of pais "boy, child," especially a son, from PIE root *peu- "small, little, few, young" (see few (adj.)). The British form paed- is better because it avoids confusion with ped-.
pedo- 2 or ped- or paed- or paedo-
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Child; children: pedodontics.