ἱππόκαμπος
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ῐ̔́ππος (híppos, “horse”) + κάμπος (kámpos, “sea-monster”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hip.pó.kam.pos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)ipˈpo.kam.pos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ipˈpo.kam.pos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ipˈpo.kam.pos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈpo.kam.bos/
Noun
[edit]ῐ̔ππόκᾰμπος • (hippókampos) m (genitive ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπου); second declension
- (mythology) monster with the body of a horse and the tail of a fish, hippocampus
- (zoology) sea horse (fish of the genus Hippocampus)
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ῐ̔ππόκᾰμπος ho hippókampos |
τὼ ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπω tṑ hippokámpō |
οἱ ῐ̔ππόκᾰμποι hoi hippókampoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπου toû hippokámpou |
τοῖν ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μποιν toîn hippokámpoin |
τῶν ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπων tôn hippokámpōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπῳ tôi hippokámpōi |
τοῖν ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μποιν toîn hippokámpoin |
τοῖς ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μποις toîs hippokámpois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ῐ̔ππόκᾰμπον tòn hippókampon |
τὼ ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπω tṑ hippokámpō |
τοὺς ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπους toùs hippokámpous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῐ̔ππόκᾰμπε hippókampe |
ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπω hippokámpō |
ῐ̔ππόκᾰμποι hippókampoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- Greek: ιππόκαμπος (ippókampos)
- → Latin: hippocampus
- → Catalan: hipocamp
- → English: hippocampus
- → French: hippocampe
- → German: Hippokamp
- → Italian: ippocampo
- → Portuguese: hipocampo
- → Romanian: hipocamp
- → Spanish: hipocampo
- → Translingual: Hippocampus
References
[edit]- “ἱππόκαμπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἱππόκαμπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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- Ancient Greek compound terms
- Ancient Greek 4-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
- grc:Mythological creatures
- grc:Fish