Aphrodite

• Aphrodité (obsolete)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē). Doublet of Aferdita.

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

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• Rhymes: -aɪti

Aphrodite

1. (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.
   • 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.

• 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

• atrophied

• Afrodite

From Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).

• IPA^(key): [ɑfʁoˈd̥i(ː)d̥ə]

Aphrodite

1. (Greek mythology) Aphrodite

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

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Aphrodite f

1. (Greek mythology) Aphrodite (goddess)

• aphrodisiaque

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).

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

Aphrodītē f sg (genitive Aphrodītēs); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Aphrodite

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