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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἱπποκένταυρος (hippokéntauros).
Pronunciation
Noun
hippocentaurus m (genitive hippocentaurī); second declension
- A centaur
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- “hippocentaurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hippocentaurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hippocentaurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “hippocentaurus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “hippocentaurus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray