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ἱππομανία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱππομανία

Structure: ἱππομανι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from i(ppomanh/s

Sense

  1. mad love for horses

Declension

First declension

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

  • πολλὴ γὰρ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ἡ ἱππομανία καὶ πολλῶν ἤδη σπουδαίων εἶναι δοκούντων ἐπείληπται. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 29:2)

Synonyms

  1. mad love for horses

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

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