"ἱπποπόταμος" meaning in Ancient Greek

See ἱπποπόταμος in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /hip.po.pó.ta.mos/, /ip.poˈpo.ta.mos/, /i.poˈpo.ta.mos/, /hip.po.pó.ta.mos/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /(h)ip.poˈpo.ta.mos/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ip.poˈpo.ta.mos/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ip.poˈpo.ta.mos/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /i.poˈpo.ta.mos/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From ῐ̔́ππος (híppos, “horse”) + ποτᾰμός (potamós, “river”). Etymology templates: {{af|grc|ῐ̔́ππος|ποτᾰμός|t1=horse|t2=river}} ῐ̔́ππος (híppos, “horse”) + ποτᾰμός (potamós, “river”) Head templates: {{grc-noun|ῐ̔πποποτᾰ́μου|m|second|head=ῐ̔πποπότᾰμος}} ῐ̔πποπότᾰμος • (hippopótamos) m (genitive ῐ̔πποποτᾰ́μου); second declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|ῐ̔πποπότᾰμος|ου}} Forms: ῐ̔πποπότᾰμος [canonical], hippopótamos [romanization], ῐ̔πποποτᾰ́μου [genitive], Attic declension-2 [table-tags], ὁ ῐ̔πποπότᾰμος [nominative, singular], τὼ ῐ̔πποποτᾰ́μω [dual, nominative], οἱ ῐ̔πποπότᾰμοι [nominative, plural], τοῦ ῐ̔πποποτᾰ́μου [genitive, singular], τοῖν ῐ̔πποποτᾰ́μοιν [dual, genitive], τῶν ῐ̔πποποτᾰ́μων [genitive, plural], τῷ ῐ̔πποποτᾰ́μῳ [dative, singular], τοῖν ῐ̔πποποτᾰ́μοιν [dative, dual], τοῖς ῐ̔πποποτᾰ́μοις [dative, plural], τὸν ῐ̔πποπότᾰμον [accusative, singular], τὼ ῐ̔πποποτᾰ́μω [accusative, dual], τοὺς ῐ̔πποποτᾰ́μους [accusative, plural], ῐ̔πποπότᾰμε [singular, vocative], ῐ̔πποποτᾰ́μω [dual, vocative], ῐ̔πποπότᾰμοι [plural, vocative]
  1. hippopotamus Categories (lifeform): Even-toed ungulates

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.