ἵππος, ὁ,
horse, ἡ,
mare, most frequently
feminine in Poets; in full θήλεες ἵπποι [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
team of chariot-horses, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]: hence, of
the chariot itself, ἀφ᾽ ἵπποιιν, ἀφ᾽ ἵππων, from
the chariot, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἵππων ἐπιβησόμενος intending to mount
his chariot, [
Refs]; opposed to πεζοί, πλῆτο δὲ πᾶν πεδίον πεζῶν τε καὶ ἵππων [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; of riders, νῶθ᾽ ἵππων ἐπιβάντες ἐθύνεον [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently of race-horses, ἵ. ἀκαμαντόποδες [
Refs 5th c.BC+], of ships, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]
2) the constellation [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
3) title of Hecate in the Mithraic cult, [
Refs 3rd c.AD+]
4) perhaps an instrument of torture, Latin
eculeus, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
II) as Collective Noun, ἵππος, ἡ,
horse, cavalry, ἡ τῶν Θεσσαλῶν ἵ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+] a thousand
horse, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ διακοσία ἵ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
III)
a sea-fish, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; but ὁ ἵ. ὁ ποτάμιος
the hippopotamus, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV)
lewd woman, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
IV.b)
pudenda muliebria et virilia, [
Refs 5th c.AD+]
V)
a complaint of the eyes, such that they are always winking, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
VI) title of ministrants ('chuckersout') in certain religious ceremonies, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
VII) in compounds, to express
anything large or
coarse, as in our
horse-chestnut, horse-laugh, see at {ἱππό-κρημνος}, -λάπαθον, -μάραθον, -πορνος, -σέλινον, -τυφία, and compare βου. (From ἴκϝος, see at {ἴκκος}; cf. Sanskrit
aśvas, Latin
equus: the ἴ- (in place of
e-) and the aspirate are unexplained; the latter
accusative to [
Refs 2nd c.AD+] was confined to Attic; compare Λεύκ-ιππος, Γλαύκ-ιππος.)