Save Gender Feminine Usage Greek Mythology Scripts Ερωτοτόκος(Ancient Greek) Meaning & History Means "bearer of love" or "producing love", derived from Greek ἔρως (erôs) "love, desire" (genitive ἔρωτος (erôtos); see Eros) and τόκος (tokos) meaning "childbirth, parturition". This was an epithet of the goddess Hecate.