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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῐ̔́ππος (híppos, “horse”) + κρᾰ́τος (krátos, “power”) + -ης (-ēs). Compare Κράτιππος (Krátippos), which uses the same elements in the reverse order.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hip.po.krá.tɛːs/ → /ip.poˈkra.tis/ → /i.poˈkra.tis/
Proper noun
Ῐ̔πποκρᾰ́της • (Hippokrátēs) m (genitive Ῐ̔πποκρᾰ́τους); third declension
- a male given name: Hippocrates
- in particular, the physician Hippocrates of Kos
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “Ἱπποκράτης”, 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013