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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

  • ἐροῦ τὴν μητέρα, εἴ ποτε λέλουται μετ̓ αὐτῆσ· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:3)
  • "ἤν ποτε εἰσ Κόρινθον ἔλθῃσ, ἐροῦ ἔνθα ἐστὶν ἡ Εὐβατίδου οἰκία, καὶ ἐπειδάν σοι δειχθῇ παρὰ τὸ Κράνειον, παρελθὼν εἰσ αὐτὴν λέγε πρὸσ τὸν θυρωρὸν Τίβειον ὡσ ἐθέλοισ ἰδεῖν ὅθεν τὸν δαίμονα ὁ Πυθαγορικὸσ Ἀρίγνωτοσ ἀνορύξασ ἀπήλασε καὶ πρὸσ τὸ λοιπὸν οἰκεῖσθαι τὴν οἰκίαν ἐποίησεν. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 24:3)
  • τετρασκελέσ θ’ ὕβρισμα, Κενταύρων γένοσ, Φολόην ἐπελθών, ὦ κάκιστε βασιλέων, ἐροῦ τίν’ ἄνδρ’ ἄριστον ἐγκρίνειαν ἄν, ἢ οὐ παῖδα τὸν ἐμόν, ὃν σὺ φῂσ εἶναι δοκεῖν. (Euripides, Heracles, episode 1:6)
  • αὐτὸν ἐροῦ· (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 7:16)
  • κἀμὲ νῦν ἐροῦ τί πάσχω· (Euripides, episode, trochees 1:1)

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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