ἱππομανές

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Neuter form of ἱππομᾰνής (hippomănḗs, “swarming with horses”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hip.po.ma.nés/ → /ip.po.maˈnes/ → /i.po.maˈnes/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hip.po.ma.nés/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ip.po.maˈnes/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ip.po.maˈnes/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ip.po.maˈnes/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.po.maˈnes/

Noun

ἱππομᾰνές • (hippomănés) n (genitive ἱππομᾰνοῦς); third declension

1. thorn apple (Datura stramonium), of which horses are madly fond or which makes them mad

   Synonym: στρῠ́χνον (strŭ́khnon)

2. (zoology) small black fleshy substance on the forehead of a new-born foal
3. mucous humor that runs from mares

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ἱππομᾰνές; τοῦ ἱππομᾰνοῦς (contracted, Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἱππομᾰνές tò hippomănés	τὼ ἱππομᾰνεῖ tṑ hippomăneî	τᾰ̀ ἱππομᾰνῆ tằ hippomănê
Genitive	τοῦ ἱππομᾰνοῦς toû hippomănoûs	τοῖν ἱππομᾰνοῖν toîn hippomănoîn	τῶν ἱππομᾰνῶν tôn hippomănôn
Dative	τῷ ἱππομᾰνεῖ tôi hippomăneî	τοῖν ἱππομᾰνοῖν toîn hippomănoîn	τοῖς ἱππομᾰνέσῐ / ἱππομᾰνέσῐν toîs hippomănésĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ ἱππομᾰνές tò hippomănés	τὼ ἱππομᾰνεῖ tṑ hippomăneî	τᾰ̀ ἱππομᾰνῆ tằ hippomănê
Vocative	ἱππομᾰνές hippomănés	ἱππομᾰνεῖ hippomăneî	ἱππομᾰνῆ hippomănê
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: hippomanes
• → Translingual: Hippomane

Further reading

• “ἱππομανές”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἱππομανές in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette