ἱππόδρομος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῐ̔́ππος (híppos, “horse”) +‎ δρόμος (drómos, “street”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hip.pó.dro.mos/ → /ipˈpo.ðro.mos/ → /iˈpo.ðro.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hip.pó.dro.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ipˈpo.dro.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ipˈpo.ðro.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ipˈpo.ðro.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈpo.ðro.mos/

Noun

ῐ̔ππόδρομος • (hippódromos) m (genitive ῐ̔πποδρόμου); second declension

1. hippodrome, a circuit for chariot-racing

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῐ̔ππόδρομος; τοῦ ῐ̔πποδρόμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῐ̔ππόδρομος ho hippódromos	τὼ ῐ̔πποδρόμω tṑ hippodrómō	οἱ ῐ̔ππόδρομοι hoi hippódromoi
Genitive	τοῦ ῐ̔πποδρόμου toû hippodrómou	τοῖν ῐ̔πποδρόμοιν toîn hippodrómoin	τῶν ῐ̔πποδρόμων tôn hippodrómōn
Dative	τῷ ῐ̔πποδρόμῳ tôi hippodrómōi	τοῖν ῐ̔πποδρόμοιν toîn hippodrómoin	τοῖς ῐ̔πποδρόμοις toîs hippodrómois
Accusative	τὸν ῐ̔ππόδρομον tòn hippódromon	τὼ ῐ̔πποδρόμω tṑ hippodrómō	τοὺς ῐ̔πποδρόμους toùs hippodrómous
Vocative	ῐ̔ππόδρομε hippódrome	ῐ̔πποδρόμω hippodrómō	ῐ̔ππόδρομοι hippódromoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: hippodrome
• Latin: hippodromos

References

• “ἱππόδρομος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἱππόδρομος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἱππόδρομος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἱππόδρομος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • course idem, page 178.
  • race-course idem, page 667.