Word.ws English Dictionary

Harpocrates

Harpocrates proper noun: the god of silence, secrets and confidentiality.

harpocrates: the god of silence, secrets and confidentiality
Image: Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Proper noun

Harpocrates

  1. (Greek) The god of silence, secrets and confidentiality.

Origin of Harpocrates

From Ancient Greek Ἁρποκράτης (Harpokrátēs), from Egyptian ḥr-pꜣ-ẖrd, from ḥr (“Horus”) + pꜣ (“the”) + ẖrd (“child”).

Questions about Harpocrates

What does Harpocrates mean?
Harpocrates means the god of silence, secrets and confidentiality.
What part of speech is Harpocrates?
Harpocrates is a proper noun.

Words near Harpocrates in the dictionary

  1. harpists
  2. harpless
  3. harplike
  4. harpmaker
  5. harpmakers
  6. Harpocrates
  7. Harpole
  8. Harpoles
  9. harpoon
  10. harpoon fork
  11. harpoon forks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Harpocrates (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Harpocrates.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/harpocrates. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.