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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῐ̔́ππος (híppos, “horse”) + δρόμος (drómos, “street”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hip.pó.dro.mos/ → /ipˈpo.ðro.mos/ → /iˈpo.ðro.mos/
Noun
ῐ̔ππόδρομος • (hippódromos) m (genitive ῐ̔πποδρόμου); second declension
- hippodrome, a circuit for chariot-racing
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “ἱππόδρομος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἱππόδρομος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἱππόδρομος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἱππόδρομος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.