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Meaning of "Hephaistos" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HEPHAISTOS

Hephaistos  [hɪˈfaɪstɒs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HEPHAISTOS

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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hephaistos is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HEPHAISTOS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hephaistos

Hephaestus

Festivals: ▪ Daphnephoria ▪ Dionysia ▪ Dionysian Mysteries ▪ Eleusinian Mysteries ▪ Panathenaic Games ▪ Panhellenic Games ▪ Thesmophoria Sacred places ▪ Eleusis ▪ Delphi ▪ Delos ▪ Dodona ▪ Mount Olympus ▪ Olympia Texts ▪ ArgonauticaBibliothecaCorpus HermeticumDelphic MaximsDionysiacaEpic CycleHomeric HymnsIliadOdysseyOrphic HymnsTheogonyWorks and Days History and organisation ▪ Mycenaean gods ▪ Decline of Hellenistic polytheism ▪ Julian restoration ▪ Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism ▪ Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes Hellenismos portal v t e Hephaestus is the Greek god of blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes. Hephaestus' Roman equivalent is Vulcan. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was the son of Zeus and Hera, the king and queen of the gods. As a smithing god, Hephaestus made all the weapons of the gods in Olympus.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HEPHAISTOS


asbestos
æsˈbɛstɒs
betoss
bɪˈtɒs
cestos
ˈsɛstɒs
custos
ˈkʌstɒs
nostos
ˈnɒstɒs
periaktos
ˌpɛrɪˈæktɒs
ringtoss
ˈrɪŋˌtɒs
Sestos
ˈsɛstɒs
stoss
stɒs
Thanatos
ˈθænəˌtɒs
toss
tɒs
uptoss
ʌpˈtɒs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HEPHAISTOS

Hepburn
hepcat
Hephaestus
hephthemimer
hephthemimeral
hepper
heppest
Hepplewhite

WORDS THAT END LIKE HEPHAISTOS

Barbados
blue asbestos
Campos
Carlos
chaos
Comoros
cos
Davos
Eos
Fray Bentos
Gros
Iquitos
Jos
Laos
logos
lotos
Marcos
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Santos
xystos

Synonyms and antonyms of Hephaistos in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Hephaistos» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HEPHAISTOS

Find out the translation of Hephaistos to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Hephaistos from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Hephaistos» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Hephaistos
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Hefesto
570 millions of speakers

English

Hephaistos
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Hephaistos
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

هفيستس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Гефест
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Hefesto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Hephaistos
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Héphaïstos
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hephaistos
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hephaistos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ヘファイストス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Hephaistos
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hephaistos
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Hephaistos
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Hephaistos
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हेफेस्टोस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Hephaistos
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Efesto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Hefajstos
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Гефест
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Hephaistos
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Ήφαιστος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Hephaistos
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Hephaistos
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Hephaistos
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Hephaistos

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HEPHAISTOS»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HEPHAISTOS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Hephaistos

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HEPHAISTOS»

Discover the use of Hephaistos in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Hephaistos and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hephaistos
Hephaistos attempts to fill this need. Our typical article will consist of a substantial body of material processed by computer, together with introductory and explanatory sections written by the investigating scholar. The two articles in this issue ...
‎1970
2
Silens in Attic Black-figure Vase-painting: Myth and Performance
The literary remains of the story of the Return of Hephaistos to Olympos are surprisingly few considering the popularity of the story with vase-painters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.1 The most complete summary of the story occurs in ...
Guy Michael Hedreen, 1992
3
Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
This iconography was borrowed for one of the few representations of Daidalos in vase painting, on a phlyax vase from South Italy where only the inscription confirms that the craftsman in battle with Enyalios is not Hephaistos himself ( Figure ...
Sarah P. Morris, 1995
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Matrix of Creation: Sacred Geometry in the Realm of the Planets
Sacred Geometry in the Realm of the Planets Richard Heath. A similar unnatural child, named Hephaistos, emerges from Hera (the orbit of Jupiter). He is born ugly and lame. Hera rejects him and drops him from Mount Olympus (Earth) into the ...
Richard Heath, 2004
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Gods and Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art
Karl Schefold, Luca Giuliani. The return of Hephaistos 23 Return of Hephaistos. Krater by Lydos, c. 550. New. in no way disordered. Her folded cloak hangs over her right arm as if she were standing quite still. Kyrene wrestling with the lion was  ...
Karl Schefold, Luca Giuliani, 1992
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Energy Efficient Microwave Systems: Materials Processing ...
70 6.14 A conventional standard autoclave is changed by the HEPHAISTOS- CA upgrade to a full electromagnetic “cold oven” system . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 6.15 Schematic set-up of HEPHAISTOS-systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 6.16 ...
Lambert E. Feher, 2009
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Perpetual Adolescence: Jungian Analyses of American Media, ...
According to Pausanias, Hephaistos — out of revenge for Hera's ill treatment — constructs and delivers to his mother a beautifully wrought golden throne. While she sits on the throne, invisible fetters are lashed around Hera's white arms, ...
Sally Porterfield, Keith Polette, Tita French Baumlin, 2009
8
Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens
5), where the procession continues around the entire vase and Dionysos and Hephaistos appear on opposite sides. 8. Halm-Tisserant, "Hephaistos" 8-22. See also Brommer, "Rtickfuhrung" 198-219; Brom- mer, Hephaistos 10-17; G. M. ...
Susan B. Matheson, 1995
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The Ancient Greeks: New Perspectives
nized both in the joint cult these deities shared in the Hephaisteion, a gem of a temple still preserved next to the Athenian Acropolis (see Image 9.7), and in Hephaistos's presence in the Athenian Apatouria festival, when family ties were ...
Stephanie Lynn Budin, 2004
10
The Iliad: Structure, Myth, and Meaning
11.76-77). l4 He also fashioned the scepter of Zeus (2.101-2), a symbol of the supreme god's power and authority.15 As for divine weapons, the Iliad famously depicts Hephaistos' fashioning Akhilleus' new armor (18.469-612), endowed with  ...
Bruce Louden, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HEPHAISTOS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Hephaistos is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Going Places, Near & Far: A Perfect Day in Athens
Above, on a hillside, is the beautiful Temple of Hephaistos (5th C BC) but just to the side is believed to have been a synagogue, serving a ... «The Island Now, May 15»
2
Those Darned Etruscans: Coins of the Rasna
A remarkable type from Populonia dated to the third century BCE shows the head of Sethlans, the Etruscan name for Vulcan or Hephaistos, god ... «CoinWeek, Apr 15»
3
Torture and Surveillance of the Gods: A Brilliant New Translation of …
... Kratos and Bia, henchman of Zeus, oversee Hephaistos, the god of fire and metalwork, as he binds and chains Prometheus to the mountain. «Flavorwire, Mar 15»
4
Ancient Greece has something to say about the three-person baby …
The father involved in the three-parent birth I'll be describing here – the god Hephaistos – was himself the result of a most unusual conception. «The Conversation UK, Feb 15»
5
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
The world where Oraria is located is one where gods with familiar names – Hestia, Hephaistos, Loki, and Freya among them – have descended ... «Anime News Network, Jan 15»
6
Selbstreflexion mit Seneca
Das ist die These von Wolfgang Looss, die er im vergangenen Oktober auf einem Symposium des Hephaistos Coaching Zentrum München ... «Haufe.de, Jan 15»
7
Powell's new 'Odyssey' translation immerses us in imagery …
with gold, a skilled worker whom Hephaistos and Pallas. Athena have trained in every kind of craft, and he produces. work filled with grace ... «Kansas.com, Oct 14»
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Is the Mother of Alexander the Great in the Tomb at Amphipolis? Part …
This is because the double-headed axe is an attribute of the god Hephaistos, after whom Hephaistion was named, and also because the ... «Greek Reporter, Oct 14»
9
Athens, Mykonos Magic with Grecotel
... the ancient Athenian agora with its glorious, half-hidden Temple of Hephaistos (the best-preserved temple from the ancient Greek world). «Malibu Times, Oct 14»
10
Poetry anthology explores themes of exile and homesickness
Was it Hephaistos' rage or Athens' battering rams that crushed your shrine to brash? So, all the beginnings are told. Now there's no chime of ... «Reading Post, Oct 14»

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