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) (file)

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 from Ancient Greek
Aphrodite Jones is an American author and TV producer.

Derived terms

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

Danish

Alternative forms

Afrodite

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɑfʁoˈd̥i(ː)d̥ə]

Proper noun

Aphrodite

(Greek mythology) Aphrodite

French

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Aphrodite f

(Greek mythology) Aphrodite (goddess)

Derived terms

aphrodisiaque

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