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Gender Masculine
Usage Greek Mythology
Scripts Φόρκυς(Ancient Greek)
Other Forms FormsLatinized form: Phorcys; Φόρκος (Phorkos), Phorcus
Meaning & History
Meaning uncertain. In Greek mythology, Phorkys was an old man ruling over the sea; later he was described as a god of the hidden dangers of the deep, a brother of Nereus, and was depicted as a kind of merman.