Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Eros

Eros , noun

[Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} love, {not transcribed} (personified) Eros, from {not transcribed} to love.]

(Greek Mythology) Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.