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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
hermaphroditus is a noun meaning "(Greek mythology) son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body". It carries one recorded sense.
(Greek mythology) son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
Greek mythology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hermaphroditus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.