hippŏpŏtămus — Lewis & Short
hippŏpŏtămus, i, m., = i(ppopo/tamos,
I a river - horse, hippopotamus, Plin. 8, 25, 39, § 95; Mel. 1, 9, 3; Amm. 22, 15.
The corpus record — Latin
hippopotamus
hippopotamus · m
a river - horse
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Where it lives
- Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
- Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
- Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
- De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
- Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k
- Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- hippopotami Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.11.p2
- hippopotami Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.39.p1
- hippopotami Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.10.p13
- hippopotami Historia Augusta, Gordiani Tres 33
- hippopotamos Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 28
- Hippopotami Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.15.21
6 of 10 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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