ἔραμαι: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[desire]], [[love]] (Il.)<br />Other forms: lengthened form <b class="b3">ἐράασθε Π</b> 208 (cf. Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 83); Ion.-Att. <b class="b3">ἐράω</b>; aor. <b class="b3">ἐράσ(σ)ασθαι</b>, <b class="b3">ἐρασθῆναι</b>, fut. <b class="b3">ἐρασθήσομαι</b> (ep. Ion.)<br />Derivatives: Verbal adj. <b class="b3">ἐρατός</b> [[desired]], [[loved]] (Il.) with <b class="b3">Ἐρατώ</b> f. name of one of the Muses (Hes.) and <b class="b3">ἐρατίζω</b> [[desire]] (Λ 551); lengthened form <b class="b3">ἐρατεινός</b> [[lovely]] (Il.; after the adjectives in <b class="b3">-εινός</b>, e. g. <b class="b3">ἀλγεινός</b>; <b class="b3">ποθεινός</b>; Pi.); on <b class="b3">ἐραστός</b> s. below. - Beside it <b class="b3">ἔρως</b> (Il.), gen. etc. <b class="b3">-ωτος</b> m. (Hdt., Pi.), ep. also <b class="b3">ἔρος</b> m. <b class="b2">(carnal)love</b>, personif. [[the god of Love]], with several derivv.: beside the hypocoristica <b class="b3">Ἐρώτ-ιον</b>, <b class="b3">-άριον</b>, <b class="b3">-ίσκος</b>, <b class="b3">-ιδεύς</b> further <b class="b3">ἐρωτικός</b> [[belonging to love]] (Att.), <b class="b3">ἐρωτύλος</b> [[lovely]], [[darling]], <b class="b3">ἐρωτίς</b> f. <b class="b2">id.</b> (Theoc.); <b class="b3">ἐρωτ-ιάδες</b> (<b class="b3">Νύμφαι</b>; AP); <b class="b3">ἐρωτίδια</b> (<b class="b3">-εια</b>, <b class="b3">-αια</b>) <b class="b2">Eros-feast</b> (Ath., inscr.); denomin. verb <b class="b3">ἐρωτ-ιάω</b> [[be ill of love]] (Hp.). From <b class="b3">ἔρος</b> : <b class="b3">ἐρόεις</b> (Hes., h. Hom.); cf. Treu Von Homer zur Lyrik 245. - From a stem <b class="b3">ἐρασ-</b>: Aeol. <b class="b3">ἐραννός</b> [[lovely]], [[charming]] < <b class="b3">*ἐρασ-νός</b> ( Il.), <b class="b3">ἐράσμιος</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Semon., Anakr.; vgl. Schwyzer 493 n. 10, Chantraine Formation 43), <b class="b3">ἐραστής</b> [[lover]] (Ion.-Att.), also in compp., e. g. <b class="b3">παιδ-εραστής</b> (vgl. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 33 and 86), f. <b class="b3">ἐράστρια</b> (Eup.); <b class="b3">ἐραστός</b> = <b class="b3">ἐρατός</b> (Att. etc.); denomin. verb <b class="b3">ἐραστεύω</b> = <b class="b3">ἐράω</b> (A. Pr. 893 [lyr.]). - The frquent <b class="b3">σ-</b>formations, which are hardly all analogical, point to an original <b class="b3">σ-</b>stem <b class="b3">ἔρως</b>, <b class="b3">ἔρασ-</b> (like <b class="b3">γέλως</b>, <b class="b3">γέλασ-</b>), which was lengthened with <b class="b3">-τ-</b>, c.q. passed in an <b class="b3">ο-</b>stem (further see Schwyzer 514 n. 4).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: No etymology. So Pre-Greek?