Ἱππομέδων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ῐ̔́ππος (híppos, “horse”) +‎ μέδων (médōn, “leader”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hip.po.mé.dɔːn/ → /ip.poˈme.ðon/ → /i.poˈme.ðon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hip.po.mé.dɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ip.poˈme.don/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ip.poˈme.ðon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ip.poˈme.ðon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.poˈme.ðon/

Proper noun

Ῐ̔ππομέδων • (Hippomédōn) m (genitive Ῐ̔ππομέδοντος); third declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Hippomedon

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ῐ̔ππομέδων; τοῦ Ῐ̔ππομέδοντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ῐ̔ππομέδων ho Hippomédōn
Genitive	τοῦ Ῐ̔ππομέδοντος toû Hippomédontos
Dative	τῷ Ῐ̔ππομέδοντῐ tôi Hippomédonti
Accusative	τὸν Ῐ̔ππομέδοντᾰ tòn Hippomédonta
Vocative	Ῐ̔ππομέδον Hippomédon
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ιππομέδων (Ippomédon)
• Latin: Hippomedōn

References

• “Ἱππομέδων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013