ἱππόκαμπος
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hip.pó.kam.pos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)ipˈpo.kam.pos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ipˈpo.kam.pos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ipˈpo.kam.pos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈpo.kam.bos/
Noun
ῐ̔ππόκᾰμπος • (hippókampos) m (genitive ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπου); second declension
- monster with the body of a horse and the tail of a fish, hippocampus
- sea horse (fish of the genus Hippocampus)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ῐ̔ππόκᾰμπος ho hippókampos |
τὼ ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπω tṑ hippokámpō |
οἱ ῐ̔ππόκᾰμποι hoi hippókampoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπου toû hippokámpou |
τοῖν ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μποιν toîn hippokámpoin |
τῶν ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπων tôn hippokámpōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπῳ tôi hippokámpōi |
τοῖν ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μποιν toîn hippokámpoin |
τοῖς ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μποις toîs hippokámpois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ῐ̔ππόκᾰμπον tòn hippókampon |
τὼ ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπω tṑ hippokámpō |
τοὺς ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπους toùs hippokámpous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ῐ̔ππόκᾰμπε hippókampe |
ῐ̔πποκᾰ́μπω hippokámpō |
ῐ̔ππόκᾰμποι hippókampoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: ιππόκαμπος (ippókampos)
- → Latin: hippocampus
- → Catalan: hipocamp
- → English: hippocampus
- → French: hippocampe
- → German: Hippokamp
- → Italian: ippocampo
- → Portuguese: hipocampo
- → Romanian: hipocamp
- → Spanish: hipocampo
- → Translingual: Hippocampus
References
- “ἱππόκαμπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἱππόκαμπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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