ἔρωτα (erota)

ἔρωτα is an Ancient Greek form of ἔρως, meaning “love”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of Ἔρως, “Eros — Eros, god of love”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 607 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.11.117: … τητος τοίνυν αὐτὸν ἐρωτήσαντος εἰ οἱ θεοὶ χαίρουσι ταῖς προσκυνήσεσι καὶ εὐχαῖς, φασὶν εἰπεῖν, περὶ τούτων μὴ ἐρώτα, ἀνόητε, ἐν ὁδῷ, ἀλλὰ μόνον. τὸ δʼ αὐτὸ καὶ Βίωνα ἐρωτηθέντα εἰ θεοί εἰσιν εἰπεῖν· οὐκ ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ σκεδάσεις ὄχλ …

Euripides, The Phoenician Women 15: ἐλθὼν ἐρωτᾷ Φοῖβον ἐξαιτεῖ θʼ ἅμα

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 585: ἔρωτά τʼ ἔδωκας, ἔρωτι δʼ

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.