ἐράσ(σ)ασθαι

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `desire, love' (Il.)

Other forms: lengthened form ἐράασθε Π 208 (cf. Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 83); Ion.-Att. ἐράω; aor. ἐράσ(σ)ασθαι, ἐρασθῆναι, fut. ἐρασθήσομαι (ep. Ion.)

Derivatives: Verbal adj. ἐρατός `desired, loved' (Il.) with Έρατώ f. name of one of the Muses (Hes.) and ἐρατίζω `desire' (Λ 551); lengthened form ἐρατεινός `lovely' (Il.; after the adjectives in - εινός, e. g. ἀλγεινός; ποθεινός; Pi.); on ἐραστός s. below. - Beside it ἔρως (Il.), gen. etc. - ωτος m. (Hdt., Pi.), ep. also ἔρος m. `(carnal)love', personif. `the god of Love', with several derivv.: beside the hypocoristica Έρώτ-ιον, - άριον, - ίσκος, - ιδεύς further ἐρωτικός `belonging to love' (Att.), ἐρωτύλος `lovely, darling', ἐρωτίς f. `id.' (Theoc.); ἐρωτ-ιάδες ( Νύμφαι; AP); ἐρωτίδια (- εια, - αια) `Eros-feast' (Ath., inscr.); denomin. verb ἐρωτ-ιάω `be ill of love' (Hp.). From ἔρος: ἐρόεις (Hes., h. Hom.); cf. Treu Von Homer zur Lyrik 245. - From a stem ἐρασ-: Aeol. ἐραννός `lovely, charming' \< *ἐρασ-νός ( Il.), ἐράσμιος `id.' (Semon., Anakr.; vgl. Schwyzer 493 n. 10, Chantraine Formation 43), ἐραστής `lover' (Ion.-Att.), also in compp., e. g. παιδ-εραστής (vgl. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 33 and 86), f. ἐράστρια (Eup.); ἐραστός = ἐρατός (Att. etc.); denomin. verb ἐραστεύω = ἐράω (A. Pr. 893 [lyr.]). - The frquent σ-formations, which are hardly all analogical, point to an original σ-stem ἔρως, ἔρασ- (like γέλως, γέλασ-), which was lengthened with - τ-, c.q. passed in an ο-stem (further see Schwyzer 514 n. 4).

Origin: XX [etym. unknown]

Etymology: No etymology. So Pre-Greek?

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