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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἱππών (Hippṓn).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Hippō m sg (genitive Hippōnis); third declension
- The name of several cities in the Hellenistic world, especially:
- Hippo Regius (an ancient city, famed home of St Augustine, near modern Annaba, Algeria)
- Hippo Diarrhytus, now known as Bizerte (a city in modern Tunisia)
Declension
Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
References
- “Hippo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Hippo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.