ἵππος
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See also: ίππος
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- ἴκκος (íkkos)
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /híp.pos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)ip.pos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈip.pos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈip.pos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈi.pos/
Noun[edit]
ῐ̔́ππος • (híppos) m, f (genitive ῐ̔́ππου); second declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Doric, Koine)
Declension[edit]
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ ῐ̔́ππος ho, hē híppos |
τὼ ῐ̔́ππω tṑ híppō |
οἱ, αἱ ῐ̔́πποι hoi, hai híppoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς ῐ̔́ππου toû, tês híppou |
τοῖν ῐ̔́πποιν toîn híppoin |
τῶν ῐ̔́ππων tôn híppōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ ῐ̔́ππῳ tôi, têi híppōi |
τοῖν ῐ̔́πποιν toîn híppoin |
τοῖς, ταῖς ῐ̔́πποις toîs, taîs híppois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν ῐ̔́ππον tòn, tḕn híppon |
τὼ ῐ̔́ππω tṑ híppō |
τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ῐ̔́ππους toùs, tā̀s 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. | ||||||||||||
Usage Notes[edit]
- When used as a collective noun ("horse, cavalry"), this word is always feminine singular, even with numerals.
Derived terms[edit]
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Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- 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.
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the PIE root *h₁eḱ-
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the second declension
- Epic Ancient Greek
- Attic Ancient Greek
- Ionic Ancient Greek
- Doric Ancient Greek
- Koine Greek