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The word "hippopotamus" is derived from the ancient Greek ἱπποπόταμος, hippopotamos, from ἵππος, hippos, "horse", and ποταμός, potamos, "river", meaning "horse of the river". [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In English, the plural is hippopotamuses, but "hippopotami" is also used; [ 7 ] "hippos" can be used as a short plural.
River Horse is the literal English translation of the Greek word Hippopotamus (ἱπποπόταμος). Other uses include: River Horse, a sculpture at George Washington University; River Horse Brewery, a brewery in New Jersey; River-Horse, a 1999 book by William Least Heat-Moon
The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) (/ ˌ h ɪ p ə ˈ p ɒ t ə m ə s /; pl.: hippopotamuses; often shortened to hippo (pl.: hippos), further qualified as the common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus and river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa.
Winged hippocamp in an Art Deco fountain, Kansas City, Missouri, (1937). The hippocampus, or hippocamp or hippokampos (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; Ancient Greek: ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος, 'horse', and κάμπος, 'sea monster' [1]), sometimes called a "sea-horse" [2] in English, [citation needed] is a mythological creature mentioned in Etruscan, Greek, Phoenician, [3 ...
Hippo (/ ˈ h ɪ p oʊ /; Ancient Greek: Ἵππων, Hippon; fl. 5th century BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He is variously described as coming from Rhegium , [ 1 ] Metapontum , [ 2 ] Samos , [ 3 ] and Croton , [ 4 ] and it is possible that there was more than one philosopher with this name.
Pachydermata (meaning 'thick skin', from the Greek παχύς, pachys, 'thick', and δέρμα, derma, 'skin') is an obsolete order of mammals described by Gottlieb Storr, Georges Cuvier, and others, at one time recognized by many systematists. The term pachyderm is commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses and tapirs ...
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Hippo, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede [4] or by one of his many wives. [5] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion, [6] Hippo with her other sisters, except for one, [7] all laid with the hero in a night, [8] a week [9] or for 50 days [10] as what their father strongly ...