Ἱπποδάμεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἱππόδᾰμος (hippódamos, “horse tamer”) +‎ -ειᾰ (-eia). See ἵππος (híppos) and δαμάζω (damázō).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hip.po.dá.meː.a/ → /ip.poˈða.mi.a/ → /i.poˈða.mi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hip.po.dá.meː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ip.poˈda.mi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ip.poˈða.mi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ip.poˈða.mi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.poˈða.mi.a/

Proper noun

Ἱπποδᾰ́μειᾰ • (Hippodámeia) f (genitive Ἱπποδᾰμείᾱς); first declension

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Hippodamia

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ἱπποδᾰ́μειᾰ; τῆς Ἱπποδᾰμείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἱπποδᾰ́μειᾰ hē Hippodámeia
Genitive	τῆς Ἱπποδᾰμείᾱς tês Hippodameíās
Dative	τῇ Ἱπποδᾰμείᾳ têi Hippodameíāi
Accusative	τὴν Ἱπποδᾰ́μειᾰν tḕn Hippodámeian
Vocative	Ἱπποδᾰ́μειᾰ Hippodámeia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ιπποδάμεια (Ippodámeia)
• Latin: Hippodamīa

References

• “Ἱπποδάμεια”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Ἱπποδάμεια”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013