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English
Etymology
From Latin hippomanes, from Ancient Greek ἱππομᾰνής (hippomanḗs); see hippo- and the related suffix -mania.
Noun
hippomanes (uncountable)
- (obsolete) An ancient love philter obtained from a mare or foal in heat.
1908, Theodore Chickering Williams, transl., “On His Lady's Avarice”, in The Elegies of Tibullus, translation of original by Tibullus:Let Circe and Medea bring the lees / Of some foul cup! Let Thessaly prepare / Its direst poison! Bring hippomanes, / Fierce philtre from the frantic, brooding mare!
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἱππομᾰνής (hippomanḗs), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + μαίνομαι (maínomai, “to rage, to be crazy”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hippomanes n (genitive hippomanis); third declension
- an aphrodisiac obtained from the discharge of a mare in heat
- a membrane on the forehead of a foal, used in love-potions
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “hippomanes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hippomanes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers