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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἔραμαι (éramai), ἐράω (eráō, “I love”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /é.rɔːs/ → /ˈe.ros/ → /ˈe.ros/
Noun
ἔρως • (érōs) m (genitive ἔρωτος); third declension
- love, desire (usually of a romantic/sexual nature) (often personified)
- Sophocles, Antigone 781
Ἔρως ἀνίκατε μάχαν- Érōs aníkate mákhan
- O Love unconquered in battle
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46 CE – 120 CE,
Plutarch,
Coniugalia praecepta §138f:
- ...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.
(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."[1]- ...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.
(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."
- the object of such love/desire
- passionate joy
- a funeral wreath at Nicaea
Inflection
Descendants
References
- ^ Plutarch, Moralia, vol. 2, trans. Frank Cole Babbitt, Loeb Classical Library, 1928, p. 303.
Further reading
- “ἔρως”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἔρως”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἔρως”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἔρως in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔρως in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἔρως”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- adoration idem, page 13.
- affection idem, page 16.
- amorousness idem, page 28.
- attachment idem, page 49.
- craving idem, page 182.
- cupid idem, page 189.
- desire idem, page 215.
- devotion idem, page 221.
- eros idem, page 281.
- fire idem, page 322.
- fondness idem, page 333.
- glow idem, page 363.
- hunger idem, page 410.
- love idem, page 502.
- lust idem, page 505.
- passion idem, page 597.
- romance idem, page 720.
- worship idem, page 990.