The corpus record
ἔρως
eros
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Where it lives
- Symposium 135 · 77.36/10k
- Phaedrus 37 · 22.26/10k
- Symposium 11 · 11.55/10k
- Trojan Women 6 · 8.48/10k
- Hiero 3 · 5.03/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 4 · 4.48/10k
- De Insomniis 1 · 4.19/10k
- Trachiniae 3 · 4.13/10k
- Antigone 3 · 4.09/10k
- Alcibiades 1 4 · 3.9/10k
- Ajax 3 · 3.82/10k
- Enneads 68 · 3.21/10k
Densest 12 of 52 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
In the wild
- ἔρωτος · erōtos Aeschylus, Agamemnon 737–742
- ἔρωτας · erōtas Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 594–598
- ἔρωτι · erōti Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 590–592
- ἔρωτος · erōtos Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 687–688
- Ἐρώτων · Erōtōn Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 1041–1042
- ἔρωτα · erōta Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 1393)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. ἔρως (scan pp. 516-517; entry #2286). Root candidates: *erowéto-, *erwoto-, *erwéta-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ἔρως (scan p. 378; entry #2671).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. ἔρως (scan pp. 605-606; entry #2153).