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ἔρος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔρος

Structure: ἐρο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: εἶρος의 이오니아 형태

Sense

  1. wool

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ᾅδησ καὶ ἔρωσ γυναικὸσ καὶ γῆ οὐκ ἐμπιπλαμένη ὕδατοσ καὶ ὕδωρ καὶ πῦρ οὐ μὴ εἴπωσιν. ἀρκεῖ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:52)
  • παῖδε γάρ μοι ἐστὸν δύο καλώ, Ἵμεροσ καὶ Ἔρωσ, τούτω σοι παραδώσω ἡγεμόνε τῆσ ὁδοῦ γενησομένω· (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 15:5)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν Ἔρωσ ὅλοσ παρελθὼν εἰσ αὐτὴν ἀναγκάσει τὴν γυναῖκα ἐρᾶν, ὁ δ’ Ἵμεροσ αὐτῷ σοι περιχυθεὶσ τοῦθ’ ὅπερ ἐστίν, ἱμερτόν τε θήσει καὶ ἐράσμιον. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 15:6)
  • "οἴχῃ μοι κακοδαίμων ἐκφυγὼν τὰσ νόσουσ, οὐ πυρετὸν ἔτι δεδιώσ, οὐ πολέμιον, οὐ τύραννον οὐκ ἔρωσ σε ἀνιάσει οὐδὲ συνουσία διαστρέψει, οὐδὲ σπαθήσεισ ἐπὶ τούτῳ δὶσ ἢ τρὶσ τῆσ ἡμέρασ, ὢ τῆσ συμφορᾶσ. (Lucian, (no name) 16:11)
  • κόρον δ’ οὐκ εἶχεν ὀπωπῆσ ἄλλοτε δὴ χρύσειον ὀισαμένη Κυθερείησ κοῦρον ὀπιπεύειν θαλαμηπόλον ‐ ὀψὲ δ’ ἀνέγνω, ὡσ οὐκ ἔστιν Ἔρωσ· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1122)

Synonyms

  1. wool

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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