The corpus record

ἱππ-ών

ippon · ὁ

place for horses

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Where it lives

On the Art of Horsemanship 2 · 2.88/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ἱππ-ών · hipp-ōn — LSJ

place for horses

place for horses:

1 stable

stable, IG 1(2).336 (pl.), X. Eq. 4.2, Moschio ap. Ath. 5.207f, PCair.Zen. 193.5 (iii B.C.).

2 posting-house, station

posting-house, station, X. Cyr. 8.6.17, Supp.Epigr. 2.481 (Scythia, iii A.D.).

In the wild

ἱππῶνας · hippōnas Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.6.17 (DIORISIS sentence 4763)
ἱππῶνα · hippōna Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship 4.1 (DIORISIS sentence 107)
ἱππών · hippōn Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship 4.2 (DIORISIS sentence 110)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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