different between zeros vs eros

English

Alternative forms

• zeroes

Noun

zeros

1. plural of zero

Noun

zeros pl (plural only)

1. The decade of the 1800s, 1900s, 2000s, etc. The noughties. The 2000s.

Anagrams

• zorse

Catalan

Noun

zeros

1. plural of zero

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ze.ros/, [?d??z????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?d?ze.ros/, [?d??z?????s]

Noun

zeros m (genitive zer?); second declension

1. A precious stone, otherwise unknown.

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

References

• zeros in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• zeros in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ???? (ér?s, “love, desire”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?????s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???o?s/

Noun

eros (usually uncountable, plural erotes)

1. A winged figure of a child representing love and/or its power
2. Physical love; sexual desire
3. a type of love that seeks fulfillment without violation or something else
4. (psychiatry) libido
5. (psychiatry) collective instincts for self-preservation; life drive

Antonyms

• (life drive): death drive, Thanatos

Translations

Anagrams

• 'orse, ROEs, Roes, Rose, ores, orse, roes, rose, rosé, sero-, sore, öres

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.?os?/

Etymology 1

Noun

eros inan

1. (psychology) eros

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

eros

1. Infinitive of erosi.

Latin

Noun

er?s

1. accusative plural of erus

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (ér?s, “love, desire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?os/, [?e.?os]

Noun

eros m (uncountable)

1. eros; sexual desire
2. (psychiatry) libido

   Synonym: libido

Related terms

• erótico
• erógeno

Further reading

• “eros” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.