lolita

lolita

See also: Lolita

English

Etymology

From the title character, Dolores “Lolita” Haze, of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ləʊlˈli.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /loʊlˈli.ɾə/, /ləlˈli.ɾə/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

lolita (plural lolitas)

1. A young girl who is sexually alluring.

   Synonyms: jailbait, nymph, nymphet, nymphette

2. (fashion) A follower of lolita fashion.

Derived terms

• Gothic Lolita
• lolicon
• Lolitaesque
• Sweet Lolita

 

Translations

sexually alluring girl

Chinese: Mandarin: 蘿莉／萝莉 (zh) (luólì) Czech: lolita (cs) f Danish: lolita c Finnish: lolita German: Frühreifes Mädchen Greek: λολίτα (el) f (lolíta), νυμφίδιο (el) n (nymfídio) Japanese: ロリ (ja) (rori) Korean: 로리 (rori) Russian: Лоли́та (ru) f (Lolíta), лоли́та f (lolíta)

See also

• lass
• lassie
• paedophilia, pedophilia
• paedophile, pedophile

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English lolita. From the title character, Dolores “Lolita” Haze, of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita.

Noun

lolita c (singular definite lolitaen, plural indefinite lolitaer)

1. lolita

Declension

Declension of lolita

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lolita	lolitaen	lolitaer	lolitaerne
genitive	lolitas	lolitaens	lolitaers	lolitaernes

Derived terms

• lolitakompleks
• lolitaludder

 

References

• “lolita” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English lolita, from the title character, Dolores “Lolita” Haze, of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌloːˈli.taː/
• Hyphenation: lo‧li‧ta
• Rhymes: -itaː

Noun

lolita f (plural lolita's)

1. lolita, nymphet

Derived terms

• loli

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Finnish

Etymology

From Russian Лоли́та (Lolíta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlolitɑ/, [ˈlo̞lit̪ɑ]
• Rhymes: -olitɑ
• Syllabification^(key): lo‧li‧ta

Noun

lolita

1. lolita, nymph, nymphette (sexually attractive young girl)

   Synonym: nymfetti

Declension

Inflection of lolita (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation)
nominative		lolita	lolitat
genitive		lolitan	lolitoiden lolitoitten lolitojen
partitive		lolitaa	lolitoita lolitoja
illative		lolitaan	lolitoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		lolita	lolitat
accusative	nom.	lolita	lolitat
	gen.	lolitan
genitive		lolitan	lolitoiden lolitoitten lolitojen lolitainrare
partitive		lolitaa	lolitoita lolitoja
inessive		lolitassa	lolitoissa
elative		lolitasta	lolitoista
illative		lolitaan	lolitoihin
adessive		lolitalla	lolitoilla
ablative		lolitalta	lolitoilta
allative		lolitalle	lolitoille
essive		lolitana	lolitoina
translative		lolitaksi	lolitoiksi
instructive		—	lolitoin
abessive		lolitatta	lolitoitta
comitative		—	lolitoineen

Possessive forms of lolita (type katiska)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	lolitani	lolitamme
2nd person	lolitasi	lolitanne
3rd person	lolitansa

Anagrams

• atolli, ilolta, talloi

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loˈli.ta/
• Rhymes: -ita
• Hyphenation: lo‧lì‧ta

Noun

lolita f (plural lolite)

1. a sexually provocative young girl; a Lolita

Anagrams

• atolli, tallio

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Lindu

Noun

lolita

1. spoken sentence
2. language
3. comment

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Spanish

Noun

lolita f (plural lolitas)

1. lolita

Further reading

• “lolita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014