"ἔρως" meaning in Ancient Greek

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Noun

IPA: /é.rɔːs/, /ˈe.ros/, /ˈe.ros/, /é.rɔːs/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈe.ros/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈe.ros/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈe.ros/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈe.ros/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From ἔραμαι (éramai), ἐράω (eráō, “I love”). Head templates: {{grc-noun|ἔρωτος|m|third}} ἔρως • (érōs) m (genitive ἔρωτος); third declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|ἔρως|ἔρωτος|form=M}} Forms: érōs [romanization], ἔρωτος [genitive], Attic declension-3 [table-tags], ὁ ἔρως [nominative, singular], τὼ ἔρωτε [dual, nominative], οἱ ἔρωτες [nominative, plural], τοῦ ἔρωτος [genitive, singular], τοῖν ἐρώτοιν [dual, genitive], τῶν ἐρώτων [genitive, plural], τῷ ἔρωτῐ [dative, singular], τοῖν ἐρώτοιν [dative, dual], τοῖς ἔρωσῐ [dative, plural], ἔρωσῐν [dative, plural], toîs érōsi [dative, plural], toîs érōsin [dative, plural], τὸν ἔρωτᾰ [accusative, singular], τὼ ἔρωτε [accusative, dual], τοὺς ἔρωτᾰς [accusative, plural], ἔρως [singular, vocative], ἔρωτε [dual, vocative], ἔρωτες [plural, vocative]
  1. love, desire (usually of a romantic/sexual nature) (often personified) Categories (topical): Love
    Sense id: en-ἔρως-grc-noun-MtpHIMUq Disambiguation of Love: 39 23 21 15 2 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 34 16 13 13 25 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension: 27 20 15 16 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 43 13 9 13 21 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 58 9 9 12 12
  2. (phys. or non-phys.) attraction, (sexual) desire
    Sense id: en-ἔρως-grc-noun-xOVsDcWi
  3. the object of such love/desire
    Sense id: en-ἔρως-grc-noun-f9jXDIiF
  4. passionate joy
    Sense id: en-ἔρως-grc-noun-EiGSiFLU
  5. a funeral wreath at Nicaea
    Sense id: en-ἔρως-grc-noun-2EQZ1q62
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: ἔρος (éros) [Epic], Lyric

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "dative",
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "ἔρωσῐν",
      "source": "inflection",
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      "form": "toîs érōsi",
      "source": "inflection",
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      "form": "τὸν ἔρωτᾰ",
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          "english": "(trans. Babbitt) \"...so the keen love between newly married people that blazes up fiercely as the result of physical attractiveness must not be regarded as enduring or constant, unless, by being centred about character and by gaining a hold upon the rational faculties, it attains a state of vitality.\"",
          "ref": "46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Coniugalia praecepta §138f",
          "roman": "...hoútō tòn apò sṓmatos kaì hṓras oxùn érōta tôn neogámōn anaphlegómenon deî mḕ diarkê mēdè bébaion nomízein, àn mḕ perì tò êthos idrutheìs kaì toû phronoûntos hapsámenos émpsukhon lábēi diáthesin.",
          "text": "...οὕτω τὸν ἀπὸ σώματος καὶ ὥρας ὀξὺν ἔρωτα τῶν νεογάμων ἀναφλεγόμενον δεῖ μὴ διαρκῆ μηδὲ βέβαιον νομίζειν, ἂν μὴ περὶ τὸ ἦθος ἰδρυθεὶς καὶ τοῦ φρονοῦντος ἁψάμενος ἔμψυχον λάβῃ διάθεσιν.\n(trans. Babbitt) \"...so the keen love between newly married people that blazes up fiercely as the result of physical attractiveness must not be regarded as enduring or constant, unless, by being centred about character and by gaining a hold upon the rational faculties, it attains a state of vitality.\""
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      "glosses": [
        "a funeral wreath at Nicaea"
      ],
      "id": "en-ἔρως-grc-noun-2EQZ1q62",
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          "wreath",
          "wreath"
        ],
        [
          "Nicaea",
          "Nicaea"
        ]
      ]
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  "sounds": [
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      "ipa": "/é.rɔːs/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈe.ros/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈe.ros/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/é.rɔːs/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈe.ros/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈe.ros/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈe.ros/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈe.ros/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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      "word": "ἔρος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "Lyric"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ἔρως"
}
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  "etymology_text": "From ἔραμαι (éramai), ἐράω (eráō, “I love”).",
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    {
      "form": "τοῦ ἔρωτος",
      "roman": "toû érōtos",
      "source": "inflection",
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    {
      "form": "τῷ ἔρωτῐ",
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      "source": "inflection",
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      "form": "τοῖν ἐρώτοιν",
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      "form": "τοῖς ἔρωσῐ",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "dative",
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    {
      "form": "ἔρωσῐν",
      "source": "inflection",
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      "form": "toîs érōsi",
      "source": "inflection",
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      "source": "inflection",
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          "english": "(trans. Babbitt) \"...so the keen love between newly married people that blazes up fiercely as the result of physical attractiveness must not be regarded as enduring or constant, unless, by being centred about character and by gaining a hold upon the rational faculties, it attains a state of vitality.\"",
          "ref": "46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Coniugalia praecepta §138f",
          "roman": "...hoútō tòn apò sṓmatos kaì hṓras oxùn érōta tôn neogámōn anaphlegómenon deî mḕ diarkê mēdè bébaion nomízein, àn mḕ perì tò êthos idrutheìs kaì toû phronoûntos hapsámenos émpsukhon lábēi diáthesin.",
          "text": "...οὕτω τὸν ἀπὸ σώματος καὶ ὥρας ὀξὺν ἔρωτα τῶν νεογάμων ἀναφλεγόμενον δεῖ μὴ διαρκῆ μηδὲ βέβαιον νομίζειν, ἂν μὴ περὶ τὸ ἦθος ἰδρυθεὶς καὶ τοῦ φρονοῦντος ἁψάμενος ἔμψυχον λάβῃ διάθεσιν.\n(trans. Babbitt) \"...so the keen love between newly married people that blazes up fiercely as the result of physical attractiveness must not be regarded as enduring or constant, unless, by being centred about character and by gaining a hold upon the rational faculties, it attains a state of vitality.\""
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        "(phys. or non-phys.) attraction, (sexual) desire"
      ]
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        "the object of such love/desire"
      ]
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "passionate joy"
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        [
          "joy",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "a funeral wreath at Nicaea"
      ],
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          "funeral",
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        [
          "wreath",
          "wreath"
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        [
          "Nicaea",
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  "sounds": [
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      "ipa": "/é.rɔːs/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈe.ros/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈe.ros/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/é.rɔːs/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈe.ros/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈe.ros/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈe.ros/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈe.ros/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
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      "roman": "éros",
      "tags": [
        "Epic"
      ],
      "word": "ἔρος"
    },
    {
      "word": "Lyric"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ἔρως"
}

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  "section": "Ancient Greek",
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  "title": "ἔρως",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: phys. or non-phys.",
  "path": [
    "ἔρως"
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  "section": "Ancient Greek",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "ἔρως",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ancient Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (65a6e81 and 0dbea76). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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