Aphrodite

See also: aphrodite and Aphrodité

English

Aphrodite

Alternative forms

Aphrodité (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē).

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
Aphrodite Jones

Derived terms

Translations

Greek goddess

Arabic: أَفْرُودِيت‎ f (ʾafrūdīt)
Armenian: Աֆրոդիտե (hy) (Afrodite)
Catalan: Afrodita f
Cherokee: ᎠᏩᎶᏓᏘ (Awalodati)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 阿佛洛狄忒 (Āfóluòdítè)
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)

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 (sv)

See also

Acidalia
Anadyomene
Cytherea
Despina
Kypris
Pandemos
Urania or Ourania
Venus

References

Anagrams

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French

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Proper noun

Aphrodite f

(Greek mythology) Aphrodite (goddess)

Derived terms

aphrodisiaque

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