ἵππος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=![[ἵππος]], ὁ, ἡ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[horse]], [[mare]], Lat. [[equus]], [[equa]], Hom., etc.:—the pl. ἵπποι in Hom. are the [[chariot]]-horses, Il.:—[[hence]] ἵπποι is used for the [[chariot]] itself, καθ' ἵππων ἅλλεσθαι, ἐξ ἵππων βῆσαι, ἵππων [[ἐπεβήσετο]] Il.:—the art of [[riding]], [[though]] [[known]] to Hom., was an [[uncommon]] [[practice]], cf. [[κέλης]], [[κελητίζω]],<br /><b class="num">II.</b> as Collective Noun, [[ἵππος]], ἡ, [[horse]], [[cavalry]], Lat. [[equitatus]], Hdt., [[attic]]; [[always]] in sg., as [[ἵππος]] χιλίη a [[thousand]] [[horse]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> ὁ [[ἵππος]] ὁ [[ποτάμιος]] the [[hippopotamus]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> in Compos., it expressed [[anything]] [[large]] or [[coarse]], as in our horsechestnut, horselaugh, v. [[ἱππόκρημνος]], etc.