hippomanes

English

Etymology

From Latin hippomanes, from Ancient Greek ἱππομᾰνής (hippomănḗs); see hippo- and the related suffix -mania.

Noun

hippomanes (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) An ancient love philter obtained from a mare or foal in heat.
   • 1908, Theodore Chickering Williams, transl., “On His Lady's Avarice”, in The Elegies of Tibullus‎^[1], translation of original by Tibullus:

     Let Circe and Medea bring the lees / Of some foul cup! Let Thessaly prepare / Its direst poison! Bring hippomanes, / Fierce philtre from the frantic, brooding mare!

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἱππομᾰνής (hippomănḗs), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + μαίνομαι (maínomai, “to rage, to be crazy”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hipˈpo.ma.nes/, [hɪpˈpɔmänɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ipˈpo.ma.nes/, [ipˈpɔːmänes]

Noun

hippomanes n (genitive hippomanis); third declension

1. an aphrodisiac obtained from the discharge of a mare in heat
2. a membrane on the forehead of a foal, used in love-potions

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hippomanes	hippomanēs
genitive	hippomanis	hippomanum
dative	hippomanī	hippomanibus
accusative	hippomanem	hippomanēs
ablative	hippomane	hippomanibus
vocative	hippomanes	hippomanēs

References

• “hippomanes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hippomanes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers