Aphrodite

See also:aphroditeandAphrodité

English

Aphrodite

Alternative forms

• Aphrodité(obsolete)

Etymology

BorrowedfromAncient GreekἈφροδίτη(Aphrodítē).DoubletofAferdita.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio(US):

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• Rhymes:-aɪti

Proper noun

Aphrodite

1. (Greekmythology)Thegoddessofbeautyandlove,born whenCronuscastratedhis father,Uranus,and threw hisgenitaliainto the sea. HerRomancounterpartisVenus.
   • 1877,Otto Seemann,The Mythology of Greece and Rome: With Special Reference to Its Use in Art,page65:

     In the "Iliad",Aphroditeis represented as the daughter of Zeus and Dione, the goddess of moisture, who, as the wife of the god of heaven, was held in high esteem among the old Pelasgians.

2. A femalegiven namefrom Ancient Greek

   Aphrodite Jonesis an American author and TV producer.

Derived terms

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

Translations

Greek goddess

• Arabic:أَفْرُودِيتf(ʔafrūdīt)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac:ܐܦܪܘܕܝܛܐf

• Armenian:Աֆրոդիտե(hy)(Afrodite)
• Bengali:আফ্রোদিতি(bn)(aphrōditi)
• Catalan:Afroditaf
• Cherokee:ᎠᏩᎶᏓᏘ(awalodati)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:A phật lạc địch thắc(zh)(Āfóluòdítè)

• Coptic:ⲁⲫⲣⲟⲇⲓⲧⲏ(aphroditē)
• Czech:Afrodita(cs)f
• Dutch:Aphroditef
• Esperanto:Afrodito
• Finnish:Afrodite
• French:Aphrodite(fr)f
• Galician:Afrodita(gl)f
• German:Aphrodite(de)f
• Greek:Αφροδίτη(el)f(Afrodíti)

  Ancient:Ἀφροδίτηf(Aphrodítē)

• Gujarati:ઍફ્રોડાઈટી(ěphroḍāīṭī)
• Hebrew:אַפְרוֹדִיטִי(he)f(Afrodíti)
• Hindi:ऐफ़्रोडाइटी(aifroḍāiṭī)
• Hungarian:Aphrodité(hu)
• Irish:Afradaítéf
• Italian:Afrodite
• Japanese:アフロディーテ(Afurodīte)
• Korean:아프로디테(ko)(Apeurodite)
• Latin:Aphroditef,Venus(la)f
• Polish:Afrodyta(pl)f
• Portuguese:Afrodite(pt)f
• Punjabi:ਐਫਰੋਡਾਇਟੀ(aipharoḍāiṭī)
• Russian:Афроди́та(ru)f(Afrodíta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:Афро̀дитаf

  Roman:Afròdita(sh)f

• Spanish:Afrodita(es)f
• Swedish:Afrodite(sv)
• Turkish:Afrodit(tr)
• Ukrainian:Афроді́та(uk)f(Afrodíta)
• Yiddish:אַפֿראָדיטע(afrodite)

See also

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

Anagrams

• atrophied

Danish

Alternative forms

• Afrodite

Etymology

FromAncient GreekἈφροδίτη(Aphrodítē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):[ɑfʁoˈd̥i(ː)d̥ə]

Proper noun

Aphrodite

1. (Greekmythology)Aphrodite

French

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Aphroditef

1. (Greekmythology)Aphrodite(goddess)

Derived terms

• aphrodisiaque

Latin

Etymology

BorrowedfromAncient GreekἈφροδίτη(Aphrodítē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/a.pʰroˈdiː.teː/,[äpʰrɔˈd̪iːt̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/a.froˈdi.te/,[äfroˈd̪iːt̪e]

Proper noun

Aphrodītēfsg(genitiveAphrodītēs);first declension

1. (Greekmythology)Aphrodite

Declension

First-declensionnoun (Greek-type), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Aphrodītē
genitive	Aphrodītēs
dative	Aphrodītae
accusative	Aphrodītēn
ablative	Aphrodītē
vocative	Aphrodītē