Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hippocentaur

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hip-pocen-taur
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

centaur

Etymology

From Latin hippocentaurus, from Ancient Greek ῐ̔πποκένταυρος (hĭppokéntauros).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: hippocentaurus, ῐ̔πποκένταυρος

Inflected Forms

Questions

What does hippocentaur mean?
centaur
Where does hippocentaur come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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