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Hephæstos

Hephæstos is the archaic spelling of Hephaestus.

Meaning of Hephaestus

Proper noun

Hephaestus

  1. (Greek) The god of fire, smithwork, metallurgy, volcanoes, and artisans, who served as blacksmith of the gods. His Roman counterpart is Vulcan.

Questions about Hephæstos

What is Hephæstos the archaic spelling of?
Hephæstos is the archaic spelling of Hephaestus.

Words near Hephæstos in the dictionary

  1. Hephthalites
  2. hephthemimer
  3. hephthemimeral
  4. hephthemimers
  5. Hephzibah
  6. Hephæstos
  7. Hephæstus
  8. hepialid
  9. hepialids
  10. Heping
  11. Hepler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Hephæstos (page history and authors); Hephaestus (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.

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