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Eros

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E′ros

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Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK] love, [GREEK] (personified) Eros, fr. [GREEK] to love.]
(Greek Myth.)
Love; the god of love; – by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.

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Eros

Eros

See also: eros, EROS, éros, Éros, and erős

English

Proper noun

Eros

  1. (Greek mythology) The god of love and sexual desire; son of either Erebus and Nyx or Aphrodite and Ares. His Roman counterpart is Cupid.

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Eros m

  1. (Greek mythology) Eros (god of love and sexual desire)

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Spanish

Proper noun

Eros m

  1. (Greek mythology) Eros (god of love)

eros

eros

See also: éros, erős, Eros, Éros, and EROS

English

Noun

eros ‎(usually uncountable, plural erotes)

  1. A winged figure of a child representing love and/or its power
  2. Physical love; sexual desire
  3. a type of love that seeks fulfillment without violation or something else
  4. (psychiatry) libido
  5. (psychiatry) collective instincts for self-preservation; life drive

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Latin

Noun

erōs

  1. accusative plural of erus

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔρως ‎(érōs, “love, desire”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈe.ɾos/

Noun

eros m ‎(uncountable)

  1. eros; sexual desire
  2. (psychiatry) libido

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἔρως ‎(Érōs).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛɹɒs/

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