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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

  • ἐροῦσ’ ὅτι ταῦθ’ ἱερῶν ἐστιν ἅπαντα τἀναλώματα αἱ χορηγίαι καὶ αἱ γυμνασιαρχίαι· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 166:2)
  • ἴσωσ τοίνυν καὶ τοιαύτην τιν’ ἐροῦσ’ ὑπόνοιαν, ὡσ ὡρμηκότα νῦν τὸν ἄνθρωπον φίλον εἶναι καὶ βουλόμενόν τι ποιεῖν ἀγαθὸν τὴν πόλιν εἰσ ἀθυμίαν τρέψομεν, εἰ καταψηφιούμεθα, καὶ ποιήσομεν ὑπόπτωσ ἔχειν πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 276:1)

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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