Ἵππος

Where it lives

• Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
• Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
• Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Ἵππος · Hippos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5868)
• Ἵππων · Hippōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5552)
• Ἵππους · Hippous Herodotus, Histories 4.9.3 (DIORISIS sentence 4157)
• Ἵππου · Hippou Theogony 5–7

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Ἵππος (scan pp. 644-645; entry #2753). Root candidates: *ekku-.
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ἵππος (scan p. 482; entry #3414).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Ἵππος (scan pp. 765-767; entry #2635).

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