Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hippodame

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hip-po-dame
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sea horse or hippocampus.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"on every syde / They trembling stood, and made a long broad dyke, / That his swift charet might have passage wyde / Which foure great Hippodames did draw in temewise tyde."
"Nor did less tumult swell the late defeat Of monstrous Dagon, from whom, worse deformed With hippodame and kraken, self -assumed, So spirits can, turned infantry and steed, Nor chose the ambush of his doubtful shape."

Etymology

By confusion with hippotame.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

hippodames (plural)

Questions

What does hippodame mean?: A sea horse or hippocampus.
Where does hippodame come from?: By confusion with hippotame.

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