ἵππος

See also: ίππος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἴκκος (íkkos)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *íkkʷos (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀂𐀦 (i-qo)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos, from *h₁oh₁ḱu- (“swift”). Unexplained is ἱ (hi) for ἐ (e). Cognates include Sanskrit अश्व (áśva), Latin equus, Gaulish epos, Old Armenian էշ (ēš, “donkey”) and Old English eoh.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /híp.pos/ → /ˈip.pos/ → /ˈi.pos/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /híp.pos/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)ip.pos/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈip.pos/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈip.pos/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.pos/

Noun

ῐ̔́ππος • (híppos) m (genitive ῐ̔́ππου); second declension

1. a horse
2. cavalry

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ῐ̔́ππος; τοῦ ῐ̔́ππου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῐ̔́ππος	τὼ ῐ̔́ππω	οἱ ῐ̔́πποι
Genitive	τοῦ ῐ̔́ππου	τοῖν ῐ̔́πποιν	τῶν ῐ̔́ππων
Dative	τῷ ῐ̔́ππῳ	τοῖν ῐ̔́πποιν	τοῖς ῐ̔́πποις
Accusative	τὸν ῐ̔́ππον	τὼ ῐ̔́ππω	τοὺς ῐ̔́ππους
Vocative	ῐ̔́ππε	ῐ̔́ππω	ῐ̔́πποι
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Φίλιππος (Phílippos)
• τέθριππον (téthrippon)

Descendants

• English: hippo-
• Greek: ίππος (íppos)

References

• ἵππος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἵππος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἵππος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἵππος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ἵππος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἵππος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2462”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cavalry idem, page 119.
  • charger idem, page 125.
  • chivalry idem, page 131.
  • horse idem, page 406.
  • mare idem, page 514.