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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

  • "γενόμενοσ γοῦν τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ σχεδὸν ἁπάσησ κύριοσ ἐν οὐδεμιᾷ φανήσεται τῶν πόλεων οὔτε πρὸσ τὰσ ἀφροδισίουσ ἡδονὰσ ὁρμήσασ οὔτε μέθαισ καὶ πότοισ ἀκαίροισ χρησάμενοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 61 1:6)
  • οὐδ’ ἐν γυναιξὶν ἥδεται καθημένη, ὅκου λέγουσιν ἀφροδισίουσ λόγουσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 82)
  • οἱ δὲ οὔτε ἀνεγγύουσ ἐποίησαν ὥσπερ ἔνιοι τῶν βαρβάρων τὰσ ἀφροδισίουσ μίξεισ οὔτε ἀφῆκαν ὥσπερ Λακεδαιμόνιοι τὰσ τῶν γυναικῶν φυλακάσ, ἀλλὰ πολλοὺσ ἔθεσαν ἐπ’ αὐταῖσ νόμουσ σωφρονιστάσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 24 8:1)

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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