hippocampus

See also: Hippocampus

English

Hippocampus animation (anatomy)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin hippocampus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippókampos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) and κάμπος (kámpos, “sea monster”).

Noun

hippocampus (plural hippocampi)

1. A mythological creature with the front head and forelimbs of a horse and the rear of a dolphin; a hippocamp.
2. (anatomy) A part of the brain located inside the temporal lobe, consisting mainly of grey matter. It is a component of the limbic system and plays a role in memory and emotion. So named because of its resemblance to the seahorse.

Abbreviations

• (neuroanatomy): HIPP

Derived terms

• hippocampal / hippocampic

Translations

mythological creature

• Dutch: hippocampus (nl) m, hippokampos m
• Finnish: hippokamppi (fi)
• French: hippocampe (fr) m
• Greek: ιππόκαμπος (el) m (ippókampos)
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• Italian: ippocampo (it) m
• Portuguese: hipocampo m
• Russian: гиппока́мп (ru) m (gippokámp)
• Spanish: hipocampo m

brain region

• Catalan: hipocamp (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 海馬體／海马体 (hǎimǎtǐ), ^{(please verify)} 海马体 (hǎimǎtǐ)

• Czech: hipokampus m
• Dutch: hippocampus (nl) m
• Esperanto: hipokampo
• Finnish: aivoturso (fi), hippokampus (fi)
• French: hippocampe (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Hippocampus (de) m, Hippokampus (de) m, Ammonshorn n
• Greek: ιππόκαμπος (el) m (ippókampos)
• Italian: ippocampo (it) m
• Japanese: 海馬 (かいば, kaiba)
• Portuguese: hipocampo m
• Spanish: hipocampo m
• Vietnamese: hồi hải mã

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Latin

Alternative forms

• hippocampos

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) and κάμπος (kámpos, “sea monster”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hip.poˈkam.pus/, [hɪpːɔˈkämpʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ip.poˈkam.pus/, [ipːoˈkämpus]

Noun

hippocampus m (genitive hippocampī); second declension

1. a seahorse

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hippocampus	hippocampī
Genitive	hippocampī	hippocampōrum
Dative	hippocampō	hippocampīs
Accusative	hippocampum	hippocampōs
Ablative	hippocampō	hippocampīs
Vocative	hippocampe	hippocampī

References

• “hippocampus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hippocampus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “hippocampus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers