Scholars in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, accepting Hesiod's "foam" etymology as genuine, analyzed the second part of Aphrodite's name as *-odítē "wanderer"[8] or as *-dítē "bright".....Hesiod derives the name Aphrodite from aphrós (ἀφρός) "sea-foam",[4] interpreting the name as "risen from the foam",