hippogriff
/ˈhɪpəɡɹɪf/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "To talk of being able to ride with stirrups, is trifling: get on Pegasus, bestride the hippogryph, or mount the white nag in the Revelation."
- "Je crains done qu'il faudra que nous nous contentions de quelque moyen plus simple et plus facile, comme d'un enchanteur à gages, un hippogriffe, ou au moins de quelque génie bienfaisant, … So I doubt we must be content with some more simple and easy method, such as a magician in our pay, a hippogryph, or at least some kind genius, …"
- "Yet the work is surely not a mere map of the hippogryffon wanderings of some disordered imagination…"
- "I imagine a Hippogryph. The Hippogryph is at once the object of the act and the act itself. Abstract the one, the other has no existence: deny me the consciousness of the Hippogryph, you deny me the consciousness of the imagination; I am conscious of zero; I am not conscious at all."
- "Oceanus himself follows on a hippogriff, and counsels Prometheus to submit to Zeus."
Etymology
From French hippogriffe, from Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos, “horse”, English hippo-) + γρύψ (grúps, “griffin”).
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: hippogriffe, -