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ἔρος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔρος

Structure: ἐρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ἔρως, ἔρωτος의 시적 표현 (cf. ge/lws)

Sense

  1. love, desire
  2. Eros

Declension

Second 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

  • κἀγὼ τὸν αὐτὸν τῷδ’ ἔρον ψυχῆσ ἔχω. (Euripides, episode 1:40)
  • εἰσ ἔρον γὰρ τοῦ μαθεῖν πεπτώκαμεν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode27)
  • παίδων γὰρ ἐλθοῦσ’ εἰσ ἔρον Φοίβου πάρα, τὸ σῶμα κοινῇ τοῖσ τέκνοισ ἀπώλεσεν. (Euripides, Ion, episode 6:15)
  • καὶ τῆσ ἁπλῆσ δὲ ταύτησ διαίτησ οὐκ ἀπλήστωσ ἀπολαύοντασ παρίστησιν, ἀλλ’ ὡσ οἱ κράτιστοι τῶν ἰατρῶν ἀφαιρεῖ τὰσ πλησμονάσ, αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ πόσιοσ καὶ ἐδητύοσ ἐξ ἔρον ἕντο· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 16 2:5)
  • "ἐδητύοσ ἐξ ἔρον ἕντο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 43 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. love

Related

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

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