From love + child .
love child (plural love children )
( euphemistic ) A child born as a result of a romantic liaison between parents not married to one another; an illegitimate child.
Synonyms: bastard ; see also Thesaurus:bastard
1841 , Charles Dickens , chapter 36, in The Old Curiosity Shop :Nobody ever came to see her, nobody spoke of her, nobody cared about her. Mr Brass had said once, that he believed she was a ‘love-child ’ (which means anything but a child of love).
1968 , “Love Child”, performed by The Supremes:Love child , never meant to be / Love child , born in poverty
child born as a result of a romantic liaison between unmarried parents
Bulgarian: извънбра́чно дете́ n ( izvǎnbráčno deté )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 私生子 (zh) ( sīshēngzǐ ) , 私生兒 / 私生儿 (zh) ( sīshēngr )
Danish: kærlighedsbarn n
Dutch: liefdeskind (nl)
Esperanto: eksteredzeca infano
Estonian: sohilaps (et)
Finnish: avioton lapsi (fi) , lehtolapsi (fi)
French: enfant de l’amour (fr) m
German: Kind der Liebe n , außereheliches Kind n , uneheliches Kind n
Hungarian: szerelemgyerek (hu)
Indonesian: anak luar nikah (id)
Interlingua: filio illegitime
Irish: páiste suirí m
Italian: figlio illegittimo m
Japanese: 私生児 (ja) ( しせいじ, shiseiji ) , ラブチャイルド ( rabu chairudo ) , 落とし子 (ja) ( おとしご, otoshigo ) , 隠し子 (ja) ( かくしご )
Korean: 사생아 (ko) ( sasaeng'a ) , 러브 차일드 ( reobeu chaildeu )
Malay: anak luar nikah
Navajo: wótaashkiʼ , yátaashkiʼ
Polish: owoc miłości m
Portuguese: ilegítimo (pt) m
Romanian: copil din flori (ro) m
Russian: дитя́ любви́ (ru) n ( ditjá ljubví ) , внебра́чный ребёнок m ( vnebráčnyj rebjónok )
Spanish: hijo natural (es) m , hija natural f
Swedish: kärleksbarn n
Turkish: gayrimeşru çocuk
Volapük: nematikacil