aphrodisiac

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀφροδισιακός (aphrodisiakós, “venereal”), from Ἀφροδίσιος (Aphrodísios, “pertaining to Aphrodite”).

• IPA^(key): /æf.ɹoʊ.ˈdi.zi.æk/, /æf.ɹoʊ.ˈdɪ.zi.æk/
• Hyphenation: aph‧ro‧di‧si‧ac

aphrodisiac (not comparable)

1. Arousing or intensifying sexual desire.

• antaphrodisiac

aphrodisiac (plural aphrodisiacs)

1. Something, generally a food or drug, having such an effect.
   • Henry Kissinger: Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

• Thesaurus:anaphrodisiac

• Butea superba

• aphrodisiac in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• aphrodisiac in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.