ἱππομανές

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Neuter form of ἱππομᾰνής (hippomanḗs, “swarming with horses”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hip.po.ma.nés/ → /ip.po.maˈnes/ → /i.po.maˈnes/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hip.po.ma.nés/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ip.po.maˈnes/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ip.po.maˈnes/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ip.po.maˈnes/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.po.maˈnes/

Noun

ἱππομᾰνές • (hippomanés) n (genitive ἱππομᾰνοῦς); third declension

1. thorn apple (Datura stramonium), of which horses are madly fond or which makes them mad

   Synonym: στρῠ́χνον (strúkhnon)

2. (zoology) small black fleshy substance on the forehead of a new-born foal
3. mucous humor that runs from mares

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ἱππομᾰνές; τοῦ ἱππομᾰνοῦς (contracted, Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: hippomanes
• → Translingual: Hippomane

Further reading

• “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