Aphrodite

See also: aphrodite and Aphrodité

English

Aphrodite

Alternative forms

• Aphrodité (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).

Pronunciation

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

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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

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

Greek goddess

• Arabic: أَفْرُودِيت f (ʔafrūdīt)
• Armenian: Աֆրոդիտե (hy) (Afrodite)
• Catalan: Afrodita f
• Cherokee: ᎠᏩᎶᏓᏘ (Awalodati)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿佛洛狄忒 (Āfóluòdítè)

• 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)

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• 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
• Russian: Афроди́та (ru) f (Afrodíta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Афро̀дита f

  Roman: Afròdita (sh) f

• Spanish: Afrodita (es) f
• Swedish: Afrodite (sv)

See also

• Acidalia
• Anadyomene
• Cytherea
• Despina
• Kypris
• Pandemos
• Urania or Ourania
• Venus

Anagrams

• atrophied

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Aphrodite f

1. (Greek mythology) Aphrodite (goddess)

Derived terms

• aphrodisiaque