ἐρώμενον (eromenon)

ἐρώμενον is an Ancient Greek form of ἐράω, meaning “love, desire passionately”.

It can also be a form of ἐράομαι, “love, desire”. It is the present middle/passive participle accusative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of ἐρώμενος, “beloved”.

Found 67 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.6.30: … θνατῷ νόον εἰπεῖν, ἔσσεται εἰσαῦτις πολλὸν ἀοιδοτέρη. ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰς Μηνόδωρον τὸν Εὐγάμου ἑνὸς τῶν συσχολαστῶν ἐρώμενον·

Pausanias, Description of Greece 7.17.8: … τεώς ἐστι τοῦ Δυμαίων ἐν δεξιᾷ τῆς ὁδοῦ τάφος Σωστράτου· μειράκιον δὲ ἦν τῶν ἐπιχωρίων, γενέσθαι δὲ Ἡρακλέους ἐρώμενόν φασιν αὐτόν, καὶ—ἀποθανεῖν γὰρ τὸν Σώστρατον Ἡρακλέους ἔτι ὄντος μετὰ ἀνθρώπων—οὕτως οἱ τὸν Ἡρακλέα τό τε μνῆ …

All forms of ἐράω (conjugation 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.