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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἔρος έ̓́ρω έ̓́ροι
Genitive έ̓́ρου έ̓́ροιν έ̓́ρων
Dative έ̓́ρῳ έ̓́ροιν έ̓́ροις
Accusative έ̓́ρον έ̓́ρω έ̓́ρους
Vocative έ̓ρε έ̓́ρω έ̓́ροι

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

  • ἦ τοι μὲν πρώτιστα Χάοσ γένετ’, αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα Γαῖ’ εὐρύστερνοσ, πάντων ἕδοσ ἀσφαλὲσ αἰεὶ ἀθανάτων, οἳ ἔχουσι κάρη νιφόεντοσ Ὀλύμπου, Τάρταρά τ’ ἠερόεντα μυχῷ χθονὸσ εὐρυοδείησ, ἠδ’ Ἔροσ, ὃσ κάλλιστοσ ἐν ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι, λυσιμελήσ, πάντων δὲ θεῶν πάντων τ’ ἀνθρώπων δάμναται ἐν στήθεσσι νόον καὶ ἐπίφρονα βουλήν. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 13:1)
  • τῇ δ’ Ἔροσ ὡμάρτησε καὶ Ἵμεροσ ἕσπετο καλὸσ γεινομένῃ τὰ πρῶτα θεῶν τ’ ἐσ φῦλον ἰούσῃ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 22:14)
  • τῶν καὶ ἀπὸ βλεφάρων ἔροσ εἴβετο δερκομενάων λυσιμελήσ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 86:2)
  • "ἐγὼ δὲ φίλημμ’ ἁβροσύναν, τοῦτο,2 καί μοι τὸ λαμπρὸν ἔροσ τὠελίω καὶ τὸ καλὸν λέλογχε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 34 3:5)
  • εροσ τοῖσ διώκουσιν, ὁ δ’ ἕτεροσ τοῖσ φεύγουσιν. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 67 4:144)

Synonyms

  1. love

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

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