How do you pronounce Aphrodite?

[Squigean]

Three or four syllables?

Aph-ro-dite or Aph-ro-di-te

4
A-fro-die-tee

Four

Two

Only messing

4

5 - I say Af fro die uh tee (seems I have one extra syllable to everyone else!)

Aphro dee tee. It's my favourite white wine

3 😱 although if not told, it wouldn't have crossed my mind to use 4 because of the split diagraph.

Af-roe-DIE-tee.

4 syllables. Ph is an F sound

www.howmanysyllables.com/words/aphrodite

listen to the pronunciation here.

It's such a pretty word/name

Do people really pronounce it with the O? I would say

Aff ri die tee

afro-DIE(eh)-tee

Mind you, I was shit at classics.

I've always said four. Though was looking up how to say Hephaestus and Aphrodite was another video so looked at that too but they said three syllables.

Consequently I'm not to confident about the pronunciation of Hephaestus now!!

I would have said Heff-ICE-tus was standard?

Four

The North London Greeks and Greek Cypriots I used to work with said it with 3 syllables, either Aff-roe-deet or Aff-roe-dite depending on the accent. Aff-roe-die-tee is how the university lecturers said it (did a Classics degree, for all the good that did me!).

I presume both are valid, but the Greeks are probably just that bit more correct!

4 syllables, stress on the 3rd
AfruDIEtee

4

Four in Aphrodite.

As for the other one I’d guess
Heff A es tus ?

Still not clear on .

The video said something like he-feast-us. I'm struggling to hear what the other pronunciation is. (As in hear the what the syllabus are being produced as).

There has, apparently, been something of a change in how "ancient" names are pronounced - the trend now is to make them closer to modern Greek pronunciation, rather than traditional "classic" pronunciation.

I would pronounce it "Heff-i-stus" (Greats as an undergrad 25 years ago) but I also say Call-eye-oh-pee which Mary Beard says is incorrect for modern pronunciation.

But this might explain why the Greeks/Greek Cypriots referred to in a PP use three syllables instead of the classical/traditional 4 in Aphrodite.

Its affffro dee tay in the original Greek.

Afro dye tea

Four syllables

Afro dye tee