ἦρ (er)

ἦρ is an Ancient Greek form of αἴρω, meaning “lift, raise, take up”.

It can also be a form of ἔαρ, “spring (season)”. It is the vocative singular neuter noun.

It can also be a form of ἀρόω, “plough”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Bacchae 524: θανάτου Ζεὺς ὁ τεκὼν ἥρ-

Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium 6: … ʼ ὄλβος οὐ βέβαιος ἀλλʼ ἐφήμερος καὶ ὅτι μίκρʼ ἄττα τὰ σφάλλοντα, καὶ μίʼ ἡμέρα τὰ μὲν καθεῖλεν ὑψόθεν, τὰ δʼ ἦρʼ ἄνω τὰ μὲν ἄλλα καλῶς ἔφη λέγειν αὐτόν, βέλτιον δʼ ἄν ἔχου ἦν, εἰ μὴ μίαν ἡμέραν ἀλλὰ στιγμὴν εἶπε χρόνου κύκ …

Sophocles, Ichneutae 325: καὶ τοῦτο λύπη[ς] ἔστʼ ἄκεστρον καὶ παραψυκ[τ]ήρ[ιο]ν

All forms of αἴρω (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.