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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῐ̔́ππος (híppos, “horse”) + -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-kratíā, “rule”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hip.po.kra.tí.aː/ → /ip.po.kraˈti.a/ → /i.po.kraˈti.a/
Noun
ῐ̔πποκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ • (hippokratíā) f (genitive ῐ̔πποκρᾰτῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- victory in a cavalry engagement.
Inflection
Further reading
- “ἱπποκρατία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἱπποκρατία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἱπποκρατία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἱπποκρατία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften