ἐραστήν (erasten)

ἐραστήν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐραστής, meaning “lover”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 91 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 588: μέμφῃ τὸν ἐραστὴν κἀντρυφᾷς πεπωκότι;

Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus 15.4: … ν ἐπιχειροῦντα πράγμασι κοινοῖς καὶ ἀνθρώποις ὁμιλεῖν, καὶ γενέσθαι τῆς πολλὰ γελωμένης ὑπʼ ἐνίων ἀνεξικακίας ἐραστήν. ἀλλʼ ἁπλοῦς τις ὢν ἀεὶ καὶ ἀτενής, καὶ τὸ νικᾶν καὶ κρατεῖν ἁπάντων πάντως ἀνδρείας ἔργον ἡγούμενος, οὐκ ἀσθ …

All forms of ἐραστής (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.