Aphrodite

Aphrodite

See also: aphrodite and Aphrodité

English

Aphrodite

Alternative forms

• Aphrodité (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē). Doublet of Aferdita.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æfɹəˈdaɪti/, /æfɹoˈdaɪti/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Aphrodite

1. (Greek mythology) The goddess of beauty and love, born when Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea. Her Roman counterpart is Venus.
2. A female given name from Ancient Greek

   Aphrodite Jones is an American author and TV producer.

Derived terms

• aphro-
• aphrodisia
• aphrodisiac
• aphrodisiacal
• Aphrodisian
• aphroditic
• aphrodito-

 

Translations

Greek goddess

Arabic: أَفْرُودِيت‎ f (ʔafrūdīt) Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܐܦܪܘܕܝܛܐ‎ f Armenian: Աֆրոդիտե (hy) (Afrodite) Bengali: আফ্রোদিতি (aphrodit‌ôi) Catalan: Afrodita f Cherokee: ᎠᏩᎶᏓᏘ (awalodati) Chinese: Mandarin: 阿佛洛狄忒 (zh) (Āfóluòdítè) Coptic: ⲁⲫⲣⲟⲇⲓⲧⲏ (aphroditē) Czech: Afrodita (cs) f Dutch: Aphrodite f Esperanto: Afrodito Finnish: Afrodite French: Aphrodite (fr) f Galician: Afrodita (gl) f German: Aphrodite (de) f Greek: Αφροδίτη (el) f (Afrodíti) Ancient: Ἀφροδίτη f (Aphrodítē) Gujarati: ઍફ્રોડાઈટી (ɛphroḍāīṭī) Hebrew: אַפְרוֹדִיטִי‎ (he) f (Afrodíti) Hindi: ऐफ़्रोडाइटी (aifroḍāiṭī) Hungarian: Aphrodité (hu) Irish: Afradaíté f Italian: Afrodite Japanese: アフロディーテ (Afurodīte) Korean: 아프로디테 (ko) (Apeurodite) Latin: Aphrodite f, Venus (la) f Polish: Afrodyta (pl) f Portuguese: Afrodite (pt) f Punjabi: ਐਫਰੋਡਾਇਟੀ (aipharoḍāiṭī) Russian: Афроди́та (ru) f (Afrodíta) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Афро̀дита f Roman: Afròdita (sh) f Spanish: Afrodita (es) f Swedish: Afrodite (sv) Turkish: Afrodit (tr) Ukrainian: Афроді́та f (Afrodíta) Yiddish: אַפֿראָדיטע‎ (afrodite)

See also

• Acidalia
• Anadyomene
• Cytherea
• Despina
• Kypris
• Pandemos
• Urania or Ourania
• Venus
• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

References

Anagrams

• atrophied

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Danish

Alternative forms

• Afrodite

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɑfʁoˈd̥i(ː)d̥ə]

Proper noun

Aphrodite

1. (Greek mythology) Aphrodite

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.fʁɔ.dit/
• Hyphenation: A‧fro‧dite

• Audio

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Proper noun

Aphrodite f

1. (Greek mythology) Aphrodite (goddess)

Derived terms

• aphrodisiaque