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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
- IPA(key): /a.pʰró.diː.tos/ → /aˈɸro.ði.tos/ → /aˈfro.ði.tos/
Proper noun
Ἀφρόδῑτος • (Aphródītos) m (genitive Ἀφροδῑ́του); first declension
- Aphroditus
Declension
Descendants
References
- ^ “Ἀφρόδιτος”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray