English

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

Proper noun

Hermaphroditus

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

Translations

Derived terms

• hermaphrodite
• hermaphroditic
• hermaphroditism

See also

• androgynous
• intersex

References

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

Latin

Proper noun

Hermaphroditus m ‎(genitive Hermaphroditi); second declension

1. Hermaphroditus

Inflection

Second declension.