Ἀφρόδιτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The name is a masculine form of Ἀφροδῑ́τη (Aphrodī́tē, Aphrodite), who was represented as a herm with a phallus, the symbol of fertility, but afterwards as a divine being combining the two sexes.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Ἀφρόδῑτος • (Aphródītos) m (genitive Ἀφροδῑ́του); first declension

  1. Aphroditus

Declension

Descendants

  • Greek: Αφρόδιτος (Afróditos)
  • Latin: Aphrodītus

References

  1. Ἀφρόδιτος”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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