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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

  • εἶτα μετὰ ταύτην ἄλλη Ἀθηνᾶ, οὐ λίθοσ αὕτη γε, ἀλλὰ γραφὴ πάλιν Ἥφαιστοσ αὐτὴν διώκει ἐρῶν, ἡ δὲ φεύγει, κἀκ. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 27:1)
  • "τότε δὴ καὶ συλληφθεὶσ ἐπὶ τούτῳ ὁ Πρωτεὺσ ἐνέπεσεν εἰσ τὸ δεσμωτήριον, ὅπερ καὶ αὐτὸ οὐ μικρὸν αὐτῷ ἀξίωμα περιεποίησεν πρὸσ τὸν ἑξῆσ βίον καὶ τὴν τερατείαν καὶ δοξοκοπίαν ὧν ἐρῶν ἐτύγχανεν. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:13)
  • ἤδη δὲ ἀμελούμενοσ ὑφ’ ἁπάντων καὶ μηκέθ’ ὁμοίωσ περίβλεπτοσ ὤν ‐ ἑώλα γὰρ ἦν ἅπαντα καὶ οὐδὲν ἔτι καινουργεῖν ἐδύνατο ἐφ’ ὅτῳ ἐκπλήξει τοὺσ ἐντυγχάνοντασ καὶ θαυμάζειν καὶ πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἀποβλέπειν ποιήσει, οὗπερ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ δριμύν τινα ἔρωτα ἐρῶν ἐτύγχανεν ‐ τὸ τελευταῖον τοῦτο τόλμημα ἐβουλεύσατο περὶ τῆσ πυρᾶσ, καὶ διέδωκε λόγον ἐσ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ εὐθὺσ ἀπ’ Ὀλυμπίων τῶν ἔμπροσθεν ὡσ ἐσ τοὐπιὸν καύσων ἑαυτόν. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:47)
  • οὕτω δὲ θέλγει ὄρχησισ ὥστε ἂν ἐρῶν τισ εἰσ τὸ θέατρον παρέλθοι, ἐσωφρονίσθη ἰδὼν ὅσα ἔρωτοσ κακὰ τέλη· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 78:4)
  • Ἐκ Βοιωτίασ, ὦ Ἥλιε, παρὰ τῆσ Ἀμφιτρύωνοσ, ᾗ σύνεστιν ἐρῶν αὐτῆσ. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:2)

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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