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

Noun

ῐ̔́ππος • (híppos) m (genitive ῐ̔́ππου); second declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Doric, Koine)

1. a horse
2. cavalry

Declension

Second declension of ὁ ῐ̔́ππος; τοῦ ῐ̔́ππου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῐ̔́ππος ho híppos	τὼ ῐ̔́ππω tṑ híppō	οἱ ῐ̔́πποι hoi híppoi
Genitive	τοῦ ῐ̔́ππου toû híppou	τοῖν ῐ̔́πποιν toîn híppoin	τῶν ῐ̔́ππων tôn híppōn
Dative	τῷ ῐ̔́ππῳ tôi híppōi	τοῖν ῐ̔́πποιν toîn híppoin	τοῖς ῐ̔́πποις toîs híppois
Accusative	τὸν ῐ̔́ππον tòn híppon	τὼ ῐ̔́ππω tṑ híppō	τοὺς ῐ̔́ππους toùs híppous
Vocative	ῐ̔́ππε híppe	ῐ̔́ππω híppō	ῐ̔́πποι híppoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Terms derived from ἵππος (híppos)

• ἄφιππος (áphippos)
• ἱππεύς (hippeús)
• ἱππικός (hippikós)

• ἱππόδρομος (hippódromos)
• ἱπποπόταμος (hippopótamos)

• τέθριππον (téthrippon)
• Φίλιππος (Phílippos)

Descendants

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

Further reading

• 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.