Associations to the word «Hermaphroditus»

Wiktionary

HERMAPHRODITUS, proper noun. (Greek god) The son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged bodies with a naiad.
HERMAPHRODITUS, proper noun. A male Aphrodite (Aphroditus), and represented as a herm with a phallus, the symbol of fertility.

Dictionary definition

HERMAPHRODITUS, noun. (Greek mythology) son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats