Aphrodite

See also: aphrodite and Aphrodité

English

Aphrodite

Alternative forms

Aphrodité (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /æfɹəˈdaɪti/
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Proper noun

Aphrodite

(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.
A female given name
Aphrodite Jones

Derived terms

Terms derived from Aphrodite

aphroditic
aphrodito-

Translations

Greek goddess

Arabic: أَفْرُودِيت‎‎ f (ʾafrūdīt)
Armenian: Աֆրոդիտե (Afrodite)
Catalan: Afrodita f
Cherokee: ᎠᏩᎶᏓᏘ (Awalodati)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 阿佛洛狄忒 (Āfóluòdítè)
Czech: Afrodita (cs) f
Dutch: Aphrodite f
Finnish: Afrodite
French: Aphrodite (fr) f
Galician: Afrodita (gl) f
German: Aphrodite (de) f
Greek: Αφροδίτη (el) f (Afrodíti)
Ancient: Ἀφροδίτη f (Aphrodítē)

Hungarian: Aphrodité (hu)
Irish: Afradaíté f
Italian: Afrodite
Japanese: アフロディーテ (Afurodīte)
Korean: 아프로디테 (ko) (Apeurodite)
Latin: Aphrodite 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

See also

Acidalia
Anadyomene
Cytherea
Despina
Kypris
Pandemos
Urania or Ourania
Venus

References

Anagrams

atrophied

French

Proper noun

Aphrodite f

(Greek mythology) Aphrodite (goddess)

Derived terms

aphrodisiaque

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