# ἔραμαι
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

Uhlenbeck and others consider it cognate with Sanskrit रमते (rámate, “to calm down; to enjoy; to have sex with”), Lithuanian rimti (“calm down”), Gothic 𐍂𐌹𐌼𐌹𐍃 (rimis, “tranquility”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem-; the Greek could then be from a different extension *h₁er-h₂- from the original root *h₁er-. Beekes leaves the etymology unknown, so he tentatively suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /é.ra.mai̯/ → /ˈe.ra.mɛ/ → /ˈe.ra.me/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /é.ra.mai̯/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈe.ra.mɛ/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈe.ra.mɛ/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈe.ra.me/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈe.ra.me/

### Verb

ἔρᾰμαι • (érămai)
* (with genitive)
** to love (usually of romantic/sexual love, usually of a man)
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.446
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.182
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.223
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.238
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.8
*** 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 491
*** 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 697
** (of things) to passionately desire, lust after
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.64
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.208
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.96
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 3.20
*** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 11.50
*** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 852
*** 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 866
*** 1 CE – 100 CE, Aretaeus, De Curatione Acutorum Morborum 2.5
* (with infinitive) to desire eagerly
** 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 1155
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Paean 6.58
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.92
** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments 51
** 431 BCE, Euripides, Medea 700
** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 511

#### Derived terms

* ἀνέραμαι (anéramai)
* ἀντέραμαι (antéramai)
* διέραμαι (diéramai)
* ὑπερέραμαι (huperéramai)

#### Related terms

* ἀνέραστος (anérastos)
* ἔρασις (érasis)
* ἐράσμιος (erásmios)
* ἐραστεύω (erasteúō)
* ἐραστής (erastḗs)
* ἐραστικός (erastikós)
* ἐραστός (erastós)
* ἐράστρια (erástria)
* ἐρατός (eratós)
* Ἐρατώ (Eratṓ)
* ἐράω (eráō)
* ἔρως (érōs)

#### References

* “ἔραμαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ἔραμαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ἔραμαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ἔραμαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ἔραμαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “ἔραμαι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἔραμαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 449
* Uhlenbeck, C. C. (1898–1899) “rámate”, in Kurzgefasstes etymologisches Wörterbuch der altindischen Sprache (in German), Amsterdam: Johannes Müller, page 245