éros
French, noun/e.ʁɔs/
éros is spelled É-R-O-S (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,716th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Éros is a French masculine noun meaning “eros (physical love)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Amour charnel, par opposition à agapè, l’amour spirituel”.
What does éros mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineeros (physical love)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Amour charnel, par opposition à agapè, l’amour spirituel. 2. Pulsion de vie, par opposition à thanatos, la pulsion de mort.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce éros?
- /e.ʁɔs/
- \e.ʁɔs\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is éros in French?
éros appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).