Hermaphroditus

English

A 19th-century coloured engraving of Hermaphroditus, based on a fresco from Herculaneum

From Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἑρμαφρόδιτος (Hermaphróditos, from Ἑρμῆς (Hermês) +‎ Ἀφροδίτη (Aphrodítē)).

Hermaphroditus

(Greek mythology) The son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged bodies with a naiad.
A male Aphrodite (Aphroditus),[1] represented as a herm with a phallus, the symbol of fertility.[2]

Greek god

Basque: Hermafrodita
Coptic: ⲉⲣⲙⲁⲫⲣⲟⲇⲓⲧⲟⲥ (ermaphroditos)
French: Hermaphrodite (fr) m
Greek: Ερμαφρόδιτος (el) m (Ermafróditos)
Ancient: Ἑρμαφρόδιτος m (Hermaphróditos)
Italian: Ermafrodito m
Latin: Hermaphrodītus m
Lithuanian: Hermafroditas
Polish: Hermafrodyta m
Portuguese: Hermafrodito (pt) m
Russian: Гермафроди́т (ru) m (Germafrodít)
Spanish: Hermafrodito m

Ephraim Chambers (1728) Cyclopedia - Volume I, page 993: “Theophrastus affirms, that Aphroditos, or Venus, is Hermaphroditus”
William Smith (1850) Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 408

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /er.ma.froˈdi.tus/, [ermäfroˈd̪iːt̪us]

Hermaphrodītus m sg (genitive Hermaphrodītī); second declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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