The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἀφροδισιακός“venereal”
- English todayaphrodisiac
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀφροδισιακός (aphrodisiakós, “venereal”), from Ἀφροδίσιος (Aphrodísios, “pertaining to Aphrodite”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.