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/, /æfɹoʊˈdaɪti/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪti

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.

   Coordinate term: (Roman counterpart) Venus

   • 1877, Otto Seemann, The Mythology of Greece and Rome: With Special Reference to Its Use in Art, page 65:

     In the "Iliad", Aphrodite is 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 female given name from Ancient Greek.

   Aphrodite Jones is an American author and TV producer.

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

Greek goddess

• Arabic: أَفْرُودِيت f (ʔafrūdīt)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܐܦܪܘܕܝܛܐ f

• Armenian: Աֆրոդիտե (hy) (Afrodite)
• Bengali: আফ্রোদিতি (bn) (aphrōditi)
• 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 (ěphroḍāīṭī)
• 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 (uk) 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

Anagrams

• atrophied

Danish

Alternative forms

• Afrodite

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɑfʁoˈd̥i(ː)d̥ə]

Proper noun

Aphrodite

1. (Greek mythology) Aphrodite

French

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Aphrodite f

1. (Greek mythology) Aphrodite (goddess)

Derived terms

• aphrodisiaque

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Aphrodītē f sg (genitive Aphrodītēs); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Aphrodite

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

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