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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἱπποπήρα (hippopḗra).
Pronunciation
Noun
hippopēra f (genitive hippopērae); first declension
- saddlebag, horse-holdall
- Synonyms: pēra sellāris, bulga
c. 65 CE,
Seneca the Younger,
Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 87.9:
- M. Cato Censorius, quem tam rei publicae fuit nasci quam Scipionem (alter enim cum hostibus nostris bellum, alter cum moribus gessit), cantherio vehebatur et hippoperis quidem impositis, ut secum utilia portaret.
- Cato the Elder, him being born indeed healsome for the society like Scipio (for the one fought war with our foes, the other without our mores), rode along with a gelding and merely two saddlebags on it to stow his belongings.
1680, Franciszek à Mesgnien Meninski, “خرجین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum (in Ottoman Turkish, Turkish, Latin, German, Italian, French, and Polish), Vienna, column 1878: خرجین churḡīn, & خرجینه churḡīne, i. q. خرج churḡ. Hippopera.- خرجین churḡīn, & خرجینه churḡīne, i. q. خرج churḡ. Saddle-bag.
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “hippoperae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers