aphrodisiac

Etymology

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

adj

  1. Arousing or intensifying sexual desire.

noun

  1. Something, generally a food or drug, having such an effect.
    Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. c. 1970, Henry Kissinger, quoted in The New York Times (28 October 1973)
    This brother told me a secret on how to get more chicks / Put a little Medina in your glass, and the girls'll come real quick / It's better than any alcohol or aphrodisiac 1989, “Funky Cold Medina”, in Lōc’ed After Dark, performed by Tone Lōc

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