ἱππομανές
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Neuter form of ἱππομᾰνής (hippomanḗs, “swarming with horses”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hip.po.ma.nés/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)ip.po.maˈnes/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ip.po.maˈnes/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ip.po.maˈnes/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.po.maˈnes/
Noun[edit]
ἱππομᾰνές • (hippomanés) n (genitive ἱππομᾰνοῦς); third declension
- thorn apple (Datura stramonium), of which horses are madly fond or which makes them mad
- Synonym: στρῠ́χνον (strúkhnon)
- (zoology) small black fleshy substance on the forehead of a new-born foal
- mucous humor that runs from mares
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἱππομᾰνές tò hippomanés |
τὼ ἱππομᾰνεῖ tṑ hippomaneî |
τᾰ̀ ἱππομᾰνῆ tà hippomanê | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἱππομᾰνοῦς toû hippomanoûs |
τοῖν ἱππομᾰνοῖν toîn hippomanoîn |
τῶν ἱππομᾰνῶν tôn hippomanôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἱππομᾰνεῖ tôi hippomaneî |
τοῖν ἱππομᾰνοῖν toîn hippomanoîn |
τοῖς ἱππομᾰνέσῐ / ἱππομᾰνέσῐν toîs hippomanési(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἱππομᾰνές tò hippomanés |
τὼ ἱππομᾰνεῖ tṑ hippomaneî |
τᾰ̀ ἱππομᾰνῆ tà hippomanê | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἱππομᾰνές hippomanés |
ἱππομᾰνεῖ hippomaneî |
ἱππομᾰνῆ hippomanê | ||||||||||
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Descendants[edit]
- → English: hippomanes
- → Translingual: Hippomane
Further reading[edit]
- “ἱππομανές”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἱππομανές in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette