ἔρως
Third declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ἔρως
ἔρωτος
Structure:
ἐρωτ
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
Sense
- love, desire (usually of a romantic/sexual nature)
- the object of such love/desire
- passionate joy
- a funeral wreath at Nicaea
Declension
Third 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.
- ἠρώτησε δὲ Ἰακὼβ καὶ εἶπεν. ἀνάγγειλόν μοι τὸ ὄνομά σου. καὶ εἶπεν. ἱνατί τοῦτο ἐρωτᾶσ σὺ τὸ ὄνομά μου̣ καὶ εὐλόγησεν αὐτὸν ἐκεῖ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 32:29)
- καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὁ ἄγγελοσ Κυρίου. εἰσ τί τοῦτο ἐρωτᾷσ τὸ ὄνομά μου̣ καὶ αὐτό ἐστι θαυμαστόν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 13:18)
- τίνοσ δ’ οὖν ἕνεκα ταῦτα ἐρωτᾷσ; (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 3:10)
- ἐπεὶ δὲ ἅπαξ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἐμνήσθην, βούλομαι καὶ τὰ ἄλλα εἰπεῖν, ἃ περὶ αὐτοῦ οἱ σοφοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων λέγουσιν, οὐχ ὅσα περὶ τοὺσ ἔρωτασ ἐδυστύχησεν οὐδὲ τοῦ Υἁκίνθου τὸν φόνον οὐδὲ τῆσ Δάφνησ τὴν ὑπεροψίαν, ἀλλ’ ὅτι καὶ καταγνωσθεὶσ ἐπὶ τῷ τῶν Κυκλώπων θανάτῳ καὶ ἐξοστρακισθεὶσ διὰ τοῦτο ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, ἐπέμφθη εἰσ τὴν γῆν ἀνθρωπίνῃ χρησόμενοσ τῇ τύχῃ· (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 4:1)
- τοῖα δὲ παῖδασ Ἔρωτασ ἀνηΰτησεν ἰδοῦσα· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 140)
Synonyms
-
love
-
the object of such love
