ἵππος

See also: ίππος

Ancient Greek[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.

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

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.

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ῐ̔́ππος híppos	ῐ̔́ππω híppō	ῐ̔́πποι híppoi
Genitive	ῐ̔́ππου / ῐ̔πποῖο / ῐ̔́πποιο / ῐ̔ππόο / ῐ̔́πποο híppou / hippoîo / híppoio / hippóo / híppoo	ῐ̔́πποιῐν híppoiin	ῐ̔́ππων híppōn
Dative	ῐ̔́ππῳ híppōi	ῐ̔́πποιῐν híppoiin	ῐ̔́πποισῐ / ῐ̔́πποισῐν / ῐ̔́πποις híppoisi(n) / híppois
Accusative	ῐ̔́ππον híppon	ῐ̔́ππω híppō	ῐ̔́ππους híppous
Vocative	ῐ̔́ππε híppe	ῐ̔́ππω híppō	ῐ̔́πποι híppoi
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

When used as a collective noun ("horse, cavalry"), this word is always feminine singular, even with numerals.
460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.41:
μετὰ δὲ ἵππος ἄλλη χιλίη ἐκ Περσέων ἀπολελεγμένη
metà dè híppos állē khilíē ek Perséōn apolelegménē
and after them came another thousand horsemen chosen out from the Persians

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.