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ἱππικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱππικός ἱππική ἱππικόν

Structure: ἱππικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: i(/ppos

Sense

  1. of a horse or horses
  2. of horsemen or chariots
  3. skilled in riding, equestrian
  4. the horse, cavalry
  5. a course of four stadia
  6. like a horseman, with best horsemanship

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ἱππικός ἱππική ἱππικόν
Genitive ἱππικοῦ ἱππικῆς ἱππικοῦ
Dative ἱππικῷ ἱππικῇ ἱππικῷ
Accusative ἱππικόν ἱππικήν ἱππικόν
Vocative ἱππικέ ἱππική ἱππικόν
DualN/A/V ἱππικώ ἱππικᾱ́ ἱππικώ
G/D ἱππικοῖν ἱππικαῖν ἱππικοῖν
PluralNominative ἱππικοί ἱππικαί ἱππικά
Genitive ἱππικῶν ἱππικῶν ἱππικῶν
Dative ἱππικοῖς ἱππικαῖς ἱππικοῖς
Accusative ἱππικούς ἱππικᾱ́ς ἱππικά
Vocative ἱππικοί ἱππικαί ἱππικά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἱππικός ἱππικοῦ ἱππικώτερος ἱππικωτεροῦ ἱππικώτατος ἱππικωτατοῦ
Adverb ἱππικώς ἱππικώτερον ἱππικώτατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • αἱ δὲ πεζικαί τε καὶ ἱππικαὶ τάξεισ καὶ ὁπλίσεισ πολυειδεῖσ τε καὶ πολύτροποί εἰσιν. (Arrian, chapter 3 1:1)
  • ὁμοῦ γὰρ ἀμφὶ νῶτα καὶ τροχῶν βάσεισ ἤφριζον, εἰσέβαλλον ἱππικαὶ πνοαί. (Sophocles, episode 6:22)
  • "τῆσ Ἰταλίασ ἐγὼ κρούσω τῷ ποδὶ τὴν γῆν, ἀναδύσονται καὶ πεζικαὶ καὶ ἱππικαὶ δυνάμεισ. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 57 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. of a horse or horses

  2. of horsemen or chariots

  3. skilled in riding

  4. the horse

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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