hermaphroditus in English

noun
1
a son of Hermes and Aphrodite, with whom the nymph Salmacis fell in love and prayed to be forever united. As a result Hermaphroditus and Salmacis became joined in a single body that retained characteristics of both sexes.

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1. Adonis was a handsome young man, of beauty comparable to that of Endymion, Ganymedes, Narcissus, Hyacinthus 1, Atlantius (also called Hermaphroditus), Hylas or Chrysippus 2.

2. The Ambiguousness invoked by Anderson in his use of the word "hermaphroditic" is likely a nineteenth-century interpretation rather than a Greek or Roman construction, perhaps suggesting that the fusion of masculine and feminine in Hindu/Javanese mythology is more similar to that of the Greek Hermaphroditus than Anderson implies.

3. Androgynes.The androgyne (from the Greek andros, "man," and gune, "woman") is a creature that is half male and half female.In mythology, such a creature is usually a god and is sometimes called a hermaphrodite, after Hermaphroditus, son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who is said to have grown together with the nymph Salmacis (Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.347 – 388).

4. AndrogyneS.The Androgyne (from the Greek andros, "man," and gune, "woman") is a creature that is half male and half female.In mythology, such a creature is usually a god and is sometimes called a hermaphrodite, after Hermaphroditus, son of Hermes and Aphrodite, who is said to have grown together with the nymph Salmacis (Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.347 – 388).