eros

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪə.ɹɒs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛɹ.ɑs/, /ˈɪɚ.ɑs/

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eros (usually uncountable, plural erotes)

1. A winged figure of a child representing love or its power.
2. Physical love; sexual desire.
   • 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 54:

     He would introduce her to the wonders of eros; she would bloom under his expert tutelage.

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.

• (antonym(s) of “life drive”): death drive, Thanatos

• Rose, reos, 'orse, REOs, ROEs, roes, RoEs, Roes, eors, orse, ores, öres, rose, sore, Reos, EORs, sero-, rosé

• IPA^(key): /eɾos̺/ [e.ɾos̺]
• Rhymes: -eɾos̺, -os̺
• Hyphenation: e‧ros

eros inan

1. (psychology) eros

eros

1. Short form of erosi (“to buy”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛ.roːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.ros]

erōs

1. accusative plural of erus

Borrowed from French éros.

eros n (uncountable)

1. eros (physical love)

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

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

eros m (uncountable)

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

   Synonym: libido

• “eros”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025