ἱππο-πόταμος

ἱππο-πότᾰμος, ὁ,

A hippopotamus, Dsc.2.23, Gal.14.241, Dam. Isid.98:—also [suff] ἱππο-ποτάμις (for - ποτάμιος), ὁ, POxy.1220.21 (iii A.D.).

Grammatical information: m. f.

Meaning: `horse, mare' (Il.), collective f. `cavalry' (IA)

Dialectal forms: Myk. iqo, iqija `chariot'

Compounds: Very often in compp.: bahuvrihi ( λεύκ-ιππος), governing compp. ( ἱππό-δαμ-ος, ἱππ-ηλά-της), determin. compp. ( ἱππο-τοξότης); with transformed 2. member ( ἱππο-πόταμος, ἵππ-αγρος for ἵππος ποτάμιος, ἄγριος, Risch IF 59, 287; ἱππο-κορυστής, s. κόρυς); with metr. conditioned ἱππιο- for ἱππο- in ἱππιο-χαίτης, - χάρμης (ep.). As 1. member also augmentative, esp in plant-names ( ἱππο-λάπαθον a. o., Strömberg Pflanzennamen 30).

Derivatives: A. Substantives: diminut. ἱππάριον (X.), ἱππίσκος `(small) statue of a horse' (Samos IV<sup>a</sup>) etc., ἱππίδιον as fishname (Epich.; Strömberg Fischnamen 100). - ἱππότης m. `horse-, chariot-driver' (Il.; in Homer always ἱππότᾰ with voc. = nom.; see Risch Sprachgesch. und Wortbed. 389ff), f. ἱππότις (Nonn.); ἱππεύς `horse-driver, chariot-fighter' (Il.), `cavalrist' (Sapph., A., Hdt.), `knight' as social class (Hdt., Ar., Arist.); from there ἱππεύω, s. C.; also as name of a comet like ἱππίας (Plin., Apul.; Scherer Gestirnnamen 107); ἱππών `stable' (Att. inscr., X.); ἱππάκη `cheese of mare-milk' (Hp.), also plant-name (Strömberg Pflanzennamen 136; formation like ἐριθάκη, ἁλωνάκη a. o.); ἵππερος "horse-fever" (Ar., like ἴκτερος, ὕδερος); ἱπποσύνη `art of driving, cavalry' (Il.; Urs Wyss Die Wörter auf - σύνη 23 u. 49). - B. Adjectives: ἱππάς f. `belonging to a horse, status and census of the knights in Athens' (Hp., Arist.); ἵππειος `belonging to a horse' (Il.); ἵππιος `id.' (Alc., Pi., trag.), often as epithet of gods (Poseidon, Athena etc.); from there Ίππιών as month-name (Eretria); ἱππικός `id.' (IA; Chantraine Et. sur le vocab. gr. 141); ἱππώδης `horse-like' (X.). - C. Verbs: 1. ἱππάζομαι, also with ἀφ-, ἐφ-, καθ- a. o., `drive horses, serve as riding-horse' (Il.) with ἱππασία, ἱππάσιμος, ἱππαστήρ, - άστρια, ἱππαστής, - αστικός, ἵππασμα, ἱππασμός. 2. ἱππεύω `id.' (IA), prop. from ἱππεύς, but also referring to ἵππος (Schwyzer 732), also with prefix, e. g. ἀφ-, καθ-, παρ-, συν-; from there ἱππευτήρ, - τής, ἱππεία, ἵππευσις, ἵππευμα; details in Boßhardt Die Nom. auf - ευς 34f. - Further endless proper-names, both full- and short-names ( Ίππόλυτος, Ίππίας, Ι῝ππη etc.etc.). See E. Delebecque Le cheval dans l'Iliade. Paris 1951.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [301] *h₁eḱuos `horse'

Etymology: Inherited word for `horse', e. g. Skt. áśva-, Lat. equus, Venet. acc. ekvon, Celt., e. g. OIr. ech, Germ., e. g. OE eoh, OLith. ešva `mare', Toch. B yakwe, perh. also Thrac. PN Βετεσπιος, give IE *h₁eḱu̯os; further HLuw. aśuwa, Lyc. esbe. From this form we expect Gr. *ἔππος or *ἔκκος (s. Schwyzer 301). A form with geminate is indeed found in ἴκκος (EM 474, 12), Ἴκκος PN (Tarent., Epid.); s. Lejeune, Phonétique 72. (With ἴκκος: ἵππος cf. Pannonian PN Ecco, Eppo.) A problem is the ἰ-; one suggestion was that it is Mycenaean; Cf. W.-Hofmann s. equus, Schwyzer 351. The aspiration is also difficult. - There is no further explanation for the word (connection e.g. with ὠκύς cannot be demonstrated).

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Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `beam (of a loom), loom, web; mast' (Il.).

Compounds: Often as 1. member, e. g. ἱστο-δόκη `support of the mast, mast-holder' for the mast when let down (Α 434), ἱστο-πέδη `mast-shoe' (μ 51 = 162, Alc. Ζ 2, 6); cf. Risch IF 59, 26; ἱστο-βοεύς `beam of a plough, -dissel' (Hes. Op. 431, 435, A. R. 3, 1318 a. Orac. ap. Paus. 9, 37, 4), metr. enlargement of *ἱστό-βοος = ἱστὸς βόειος, βοῶν (cf. ἱππο-πόταμος) after the names of apparatus in - ευς; s. K. Meister HK 174, Boßhardt Die Nom. auf - ευς 31; also ἱστο-βόη (AP 6, 104, after - δόκη a. o.). εξιστων adjunct of χιτωνίσκον in a set of clothes for Artemis ( for ἕξ ἱστῶν, consisting of six pieced of woven material.

Derivatives: ἱστίον, mostly pl. - ία `sail' (Il.), also `curtain' (LXX), `web' as measure (pap.);

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1004] * steh₂- `set, put up'

Etymology: Formation like φορτίον a. o. (Chantraine Formation 59). To ἵσταμαι (or a lost present of the type Lat. si-st-ō) as "the stander" (not "the set-ler"); orig. of the beam of the loom (which was standing), cf. Chantraine Étrennes Benveniste 14, Hermann Gött. Nachr. 1943, 7. S. also στήμων.

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Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `garden, orchard, plantation' (Il.), `unworked piece of land' (Cypr.; cf. Kretschmer Glotta 3, 303 with R. Meister).

Other forms: Dor. κᾶπος

Compounds: Often as 1. member, e. g. κηπουρός \< *κηπο-Ϝορός (Att., hell.), also κηπ-ωρός (Archipp.; prob. after θυρωρός, s. on θύρα) `gardener'; κηπο-λάχανον `garden of vergetables' (pap.; type ἱππο-πόταμος, s. on ἵππος; cf. Strömberg Wortstudien 7), also κηπο-λαχαν-ία `id.' (pap.); κηπ-εργός `gardener' (Korykos; after ἔργον for - ουργός [Poll.]). Also as 2. member, e. g. περί-κηπος m. `garden around the house' (ptol. pap., D. S.; prob. after περί-χωρος); ἀγρό-κηπος (Att. inscr., Rom. Emp.), ἀγρο-κήπιον (Str.) `field worked as garden'.

Derivatives: Diminutiva κηπίον (Halic. V^a, Th. etc.), - πίδιον (Plu., D. L.), - πάδιον (pap.); κηπαῖος `of the garden' (Arist.; Chantraine Formation 48), κηπεύς, Dor. καπεύς `gardener' (Philyll. Com. 14, AP; Bosshardt Die Nom. auf - ευς 49), κηπίδες Νύμφαι `garden-Nymphs' (Aristainet.). Denomin. verb κηπεύω `work in the garden, cultivate' (E., Eub., Arist.) with κηπεῖαι f. pl. `gardens' (Pl. Lg. 845d), κηπεύματα pl. `garden-products, -fruits' (Ar. Av. 1100), κηπευτής = κηπεύς (Gloss.), κηπεύσιμος `grown up in a garden' (Alex. Trall.; aftr φυτεύσιμος, Arbenz Die Adj. auf - ιμος 86).

Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Eur. substr.

Etymology: But for the ending κῆπος, κᾶπος can be identical with a westgerm. word of comparable meaning, OHG huoba, OS hōba, NHG Hufe, Hube f. `piece of land of a certain size', Dutch hoeve `farm', IE. *kāpā́; here also Alb. kopshtë `garden' (with shtë-suffix), which has a velar in anlaut. On further connections, some uncertain or wrong ( κάπετος, Lat. capiō, OHG habaro `oats') s. Bq, Pok. 529. Beekes ?? Does it point to a European substratum?

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Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `beetle, gold-beetle, dung-beetle' (Ar. Νυ. 764, Arist.).

Other forms: also μηλολάνθη (Poll.), μηλάνθη (Herod.)

Compounds: χρυσο-μηλολόνθιον (Ar. V. 1341)

Derivatives: μηλολόνθιον (sch. Ar. V. 1332)

Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]

Etymology: μῆλον ὀλόνθιον, prop. "fig-sheep", from μῆλον and ὄλονθος `wild fig', because many beetles are parasitic of figs and other plants; formation like ἱππο-πόταμος (for ἵππος ποτάμιος). After ἄνθος folketymologically reshaped into μηλολάνθη; from there after οἰνάνθη a. o. μηλάνθη.-- Strömberg Wortstudien 5 ff. with extensive treatment and several parallels from diverse languages.

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