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Ἀφροδίσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀφροδίσιος

Structure: Ἀφροδισι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: From A)frodi/th

Sense

  1. belonging to Aphrodite
  2. sexual pleasures
  3. a festival of Aphrodite
  4. the temple of Aphrodite

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • παρ’ ὅσον τῶν ἐρωμένων ἐμέμνηντο ἀφιέντεσ ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ τοὺσ λεγομένουσ κοσσάβουσ, διὸ καὶ Σοφοκλῆσ ἐν Ἰνάχῳ Ἀφροδισίαν εἴρηκε τὴν λάταγα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 6 3:2)
  • τὴν δὲ πόλιν διελόμενοι κατὰ μὲν μῆκοσ εἰσ τέτταρασ πλατείασ, ὧν καλοῦσι τὴν μὲν μίαν Ἡράκλειαν, τὴν δὲ Ἀφροδισίαν, τὴν δὲ Ὀλυμπιάδα, τὴν δὲ Διονυσιάδα, κατὰ δὲ τὸ πλάτοσ διεῖλον εἰσ τρεῖσ πλατείασ, ὧν ἡ μὲν ὠνομάσθη Ἡρῴα, ἡ δὲ Θουρία, ἡ δὲ Θουρῖνα. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xii, chapter 10 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. belonging to Aphrodite

  2. sexual pleasures

  3. a festival of Aphrodite

  4. the temple of Aphrodite

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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