Ἔαρ

[Meaning] mildness of the air; season of the year in which the sun moves towards us.¹
It declines e)/aros [in the genitive] and with crasis h)=ros; and the dative [is] e)/ari and with crasis h)=ri. The word also means "blood" because blood increases in the spring.²
"Where unfriendly arenas are full of both gore and blood."³ With an extra "i".⁴