Hermaphroditus

British  

/ hɜːˌmæfrəˈdaɪtəs /

noun

1. Greek myth a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body

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Example Sentences

“Once upon a time in ancient Greece, there was an enchanted pool. This pool was sacred to Salmacis, the water nymph. And one day Hermaphroditus, a beautiful boy, went swimming there.”

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Hermaphroditus was beginning to forget about the Obscure Object.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Inside Hermaphroditus old tensions were roiling, trying to work themselves out.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

At the age of sixteen he published a translation, in verse, of Ovid's Fable of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, and before nineteen became the friend of Ben Jonson.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various

Talmacis then, like Potiphar’s wife, seized on the unlucky pattern of virtue, and prayed to the gods that they should so amalgamate poor Hermaphroditus to her body as to make them one.

From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles