hippŏcampus — Lewis & Short
hippŏcampus or -os, i, m., = i(ppo/kampos,
I a sea-horse: Syngnathus hippocampus, Linn.; Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 149; 32, 7, 23, § 67; 32, 9, 30, § 93; 36, 5, 4, § 26; Naev. and Lucil. ap. Non. 120, 17 and 19.
The corpus record — Latin
hippocampus
hippocampus · m
a sea-horse
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Where it lives
- Naturalis Historia 9 · 0.23/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- hippocampos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.11.p3
- hippocampi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.9.p1
- hippocampos Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.5.p5
- hippocampi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.9.p8
- hippocampi Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.10.p1
- hippocampus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.10.p13
6 of 9 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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