ἐρέω
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Quotation
Ἐρῶ σημαίνει δʹ· τὸ λέγω, ‘ἄλλο δέ τοι ἐρέω’, ἐξ οὗ καὶ ὁ μέσος παρακείμενος εἴρηκα, καὶ εἱρμός· σημαίνει καὶ τὸ ἐρωτῶ, ἀφ’ οὗ καὶ τὸ ἠρώμην καὶ ἠρώτων, καὶ Ὅμηρος ‘πάντων Ἀργείων (ἐρέων) γενεήν τε τόκον τε’. καὶ τὸ ζητῶ, ὡς τὸ ‘τὰς ἐρέων Ὀδυσσέα συνήντετο’, καὶ τὸ ἐπιθυμῶ, ἐξ οὗ καὶ ἐραστής· καὶ ἑορτὴ, ἣν πάντες ἐπιθυμοῦμεν.
Translation (En)
Erō has four meanings: 1. "to say" (allo de toi ereō "I will tell you something else", Il. 1.297 etc), from which the middle perfect is eirēka, and eirmos (sic); 2. it also means "to ask", from which come ērōmēn and ērōtōn "I was asking", and Homer pantōn Argeiōn (ereōn) geneēn te toron te "and (asking) the birth and descent of all the Argives" (Il. 7.128); 3. also, "to look for", as in tas ereōn Odyssea sunēnteto "it was while asking for these that he met Odysseus" (Od. 21.31); 4. and "to desire", from which comes erastēs "lover", and heortē "feast", which all of us desire
Parallels
Epimerismi homerici Il. 1.4a2 (ἔρω, τὸ ἐρωτῶ, ἐξ οὗ τὸ ἠρόμην καὶ τὸ ἠρώτην); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 304 (Εἴρω: Τὸ ἐρωτῶ· ὁ μέλλων, ἐρῶ· ὁ πρῶτος ἀόριστος, εἶρα· ὁ δεύτερος, εἶρον· οὐκ ἔστι δὲ ἐν χρήσει· ὁ μέσος δεύτερος ἀόριστος, εἰρόμην, εἴρου, εἴρετο· τὸ ἀπαρέμφατον ἔρεσθαι· καὶ ὤφειλεν εἶναι ἐρέσθαι, ἀλλ’ ἐξηκολούθησε τῷ φέρεσθαι καὶ δέρεσθαι) [presumably ἐρωτῶ is assumed to be derived from the lemma εἴρω, although this is not explicit]
Comment
Derivational etymology, taking as the etymon a synonymous shorter form