ἔρως?
Third declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration: erōs
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.
- ᾅδης καὶ ἔρως γυναικὸς καὶ γῆ οὐκ ἐμπιπλαμένη ὕδατος καὶ ὕδωρ καὶ πῦρ οὐ μὴ εἴπωσιν. ἀρκεῖ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:52)
- παῖδε γάρ μοι ἐστὸν δύο καλώ, Ἵμερος καὶ Ἔρως, τούτω σοι παραδώσω ἡγεμόνε τῆς ὁδοῦ γενησομένω: (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 15:5)
- καὶ ὁ μὲν Ἔρως ὅλος παρελθὼν εἰς αὐτὴν ἀναγκάσει τὴν γυναῖκα ἐρᾶν, ὁ δ Ἵμερος αὐτῷ σοι περιχυθεὶς τοῦθ ὅπερ ἐστίν, ἱμερτόν τε θήσει καὶ ἐράσμιον. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 15:6)
- "οἴχῃ μοι κακοδαίμων ἐκφυγὼν τὰς νόσους, οὐ πυρετὸν ἔτι δεδιώς, οὐ πολέμιον, οὐ τύραννον οὐκ ἔρως σε ἀνιάσει οὐδὲ συνουσία διαστρέψει, οὐδὲ σπαθήσεις ἐπὶ τούτῳ δὶς ἢ τρὶς τῆς ἡμέρας, ὢ τῆς συμφορᾶς. (Lucian, (no name) 16:11)
- πασάων δ ἅτε Κύπρις ἀρειοτέρη γεγαυῖα μῆλον ἔχειν ἐπόθησεν, ὅτι κτέρας ἐστὶν Ἐρώτων: (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 130)
- κόρον δ οὐκ εἶχεν ὀπωπῆς ἄλλοτε δὴ χρύσειον ὀισαμένη Κυθερείης κοῦρον ὀπιπεύειν θαλαμηπόλον - ὀψὲ δ ἀνέγνω, ὡς οὐκ ἔστιν Ἔρως: (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1122)
Synonyms
-
love
-
the object of such love
