Eros

See also: Appendix:Variations of "eros"

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἔρως (Érōs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹɒs/

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.
   • 1981 August 1, Ron Vachon, “To Your Health”, in Gay Community News, page 13:

     I'm not just talking about sexually transmitted diseases, though Eros-knows there's precious little information about them available to gay men.

2. 433 Eros, an asteroid

Derived terms

• erotic

Translations

God of love

• Arabic: إِيرُوس m (ʔīrūs)
• Armenian: Էրոս (hy) (Ēros)
• Belarusian: Э́рас m (Éras)
• Bulgarian: Е́рос m (Éros)
• Catalan: Eros m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 厄洛斯 (zh) (Èluòsī)

• Czech: Erós m
• Dutch: Eros m
• Esperanto: Eroso
• Finnish: Eros
• French: Éros (fr) m
• Georgian: ეროსი (erosi)
• German: Eros (de) m
• Greek: Έρως (el) m (Éros), Έρωτας (el) m (Érotas)

  Ancient: Ἔρως m (Érōs)

• Hindi: ईरोस m (īros)
• Hungarian: Erósz (hu)
• Irish: Earós m
• Italian: Eros (it) m
• Japanese: エロース (ja) (Erōsu)
• Korean: 에로스 (Eroseu)
• Latin: Eros m
• Latvian: Erots m
• Lithuanian: Erotas m
• Marathi: एरॉस m (erŏs), ईरॉस m (īrŏs)
• Persian: اروس (fa) (erus)
• Polish: Eros (pl) m
• Portuguese: Eros (pt) m
• Russian: Э́рос (ru) m (Éros), Эро́т (ru) m (Erót)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ерос m

  Roman: Eros m

• Spanish: Eros m
• Swahili: Erosi
• Ukrainian: Е́рос m (Éros)

433 Eros (asteroid)

• Arabic: إِيرُوس m (ʔīrūs)
• Belarusian: Э́рас m (Éras)
• Bulgarian: Е́рос m (Éros)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 愛神星／爱神星 (zh) (Àishénxīng)

• French: Éros (fr) m
• German: Eros (de) m
• Japanese: エロース (ja) (Erōsu)
• Korean: 에로스 (Eroseu)
• Russian: Э́рос (ru) m (Éros)
• Ukrainian: Е́рос m (Éros)

See also

• Cupid

Anagrams

• 'orse, ROEs, Roes, Rose, ores, orse, roes, rose, rosé, sero-, sore, öres

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἔρως (Érōs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈɛ.ɾus]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈɛ.ɾos]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈe.ɾos]

Proper noun

Eros m

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

Related terms

• eròtic

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἔρως (Érōs).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɾus/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɾus/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɾuʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɾos/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɾuʃ/

Proper noun

Eros m

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

Related terms

• erótico

See also

• Cupido

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɾos/ [ˈe.ɾos]
• Rhymes: -eɾos
• Syllabification: E‧ros

Proper noun

Eros m

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

Related terms

• erótico