ἔραμαι: Difference between revisions

|Definition=2sg. Ep. <b class="b3">ἔρασσαι</b> or <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> ἔρᾱσαι <span class="bibl">Theoc.1.78</span>, 3sg. ἔρᾱται <span class="bibl">Id.2.149</span> (with unexpld. ᾱ); 2pl. ἐράασθε <span class="bibl">Il.16.208</span>; 3sg. subj. Aeol. and Dor. ἔρᾱται <span class="bibl">Sapph.<span class="title">Supp.</span>5.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.92</span> ; opt. <b class="b3">ἐραίμαν</b> ib.<span class="bibl">11.50</span> ; impf. <b class="b3">ἠράμην [ᾰ]</b> Sapph.33, <span class="bibl">Thgn.1346</span>, etc.: fut. ἐρασθήσομαι <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>852</span> : aor. ἠράσθην <span class="bibl">Alcm.33</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.8</span>,<span class="bibl">96</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>700</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>12.920.2, poet. ἐράσθην <span class="bibl">Phoen.1.19</span> ; poet. aor. Med. ἠρᾰσάμην <span class="bibl">Il.16.182</span>, <span class="bibl">Hermesian. 7.49</span>,<span class="bibl">96</span> (Ep. and Lyr. ἠράσσατο <span class="bibl">Il.20.223</span>, <span class="bibl">Archil.26</span>, Nicaen.<span class="bibl">1.5</span> ; ἐράσσατο <span class="bibl">Hes. <span class="title">Th.</span>915</span>, P<span class="bibl">1</span>.<span class="title">P.</span>2.27): pf. ἤρασμαι <span class="bibl">Parth.2.3</span> : <b class="b3">ἐράω</b> (q.v.) supplies the pres. and impf. in Prose. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">I</span> [[love]], c. gen. pers., prop. of the sexual passion, as always in Hom.; mostly of the man, ὥς σεο νῦν ἔραμαι <span class="bibl">Il.3.446</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">16.182</span>, <span class="bibl">20.223</span>, etc.; λέχους <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>491</span> ; τῆς ἑωυτοῦ γυναικός <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.8</span> ; but of the woman, ἣ..ἠράσσατ' Ἐνιπῆος <span class="bibl">Od.11.238</span> : c. acc. cogn., ἐ. μέγαν γ' ἔρωτα <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>697</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> of things, [[desire passionately]], [[lust after]], ὃς πολέμου ἔραται ἐπιδημίου <span class="bibl">Il. 9.64</span> ; φυλόπιδος..ἕης τὸ πρίν γ' ἐράασθε <span class="bibl">16.208</span> ; ἐρασθεὶς τυραννίδος <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.96</span> ; τῶν ἀπεόντων <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>3.20</span> ; <b class="b3">καλῶν</b> ib.<span class="bibl">11.50</span> ; γῆς τῆσδε <span class="bibl">A. <span class="title">Eu.</span>852</span> ; κείνων ἔραμαι <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Alc.</span>866</span> (anap.); θανάτου ἔρανται <span class="bibl">Aret.<span class="title">CA</span> 2.5</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> c. inf., [[desire eagerly]], οὐκ ἔραμαι πλουτεῖν <span class="bibl">Thgn.1155</span> ; ἤρατο ἐπιψαύειν <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>4.92</span> ; ἔραται γλῶσσα μέλιτος ἄωτον [προχέειν] <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pae.</span>6.58</span> ; ἔραμαι πυθέσθαι <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>511</span> (lyr.); λαβεῖν τι <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Med.</span>700</span> ; φαγεῖν <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Fr.</span>51</span> (lyr.).</span>

|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>) [[Eros-feast]] (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?