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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.
Hippo (Greek woman), a Greek woman mentioned by Valerius Maximus as an example of chastity; Hippo (philosopher), a Presocratic Greek philosopher; Hippo Galloway (1882–1943), American-Canadian professional baseball player; Hippo, one of the mythical Oceanids; Hippo, one of the daughters of the mythical Thespius; Hippo, one of the mythical Amazons
[10]: 151–152 What mattered to Augustine is the meaning that the Evangelist was trying to get across, and not the exact words he uses; differences in words do not matter when the Evangelists clearly intend the same thing. [10]: 158 However, his lack of expertise in the original Greek sometimes undermines his linguistic analysis.
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 ...
The word hippogriff, also spelled hippogryph, [2] is derived from the Ancient Greek: ἵππος híppos, meaning "horse", and the Italian grifo meaning "griffin" (from Latin gryp or gryphus), which denotes another mythical creature, with the head of an eagle and body of a lion, that is purported to be the father of the hippogriff.
Winged hippocamp in an Art Deco fountain, Kansas City, Missouri, (1937). The hippocampus or hippocamp, also hippokampos (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; Ancient Greek: ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος, 'horse', and κάμπος, 'sea monster' [1]), often called a sea-horse [2] in English, [citation needed] is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician, [3] Etruscan, Pictish, Roman ...
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Greek spelling of logos. Logos (UK: / ˈ l oʊ ɡ ɒ s, ˈ l ɒ ɡ ɒ s /, US: / ˈ l oʊ ɡ oʊ s /; Ancient Greek: λόγος, romanized: lógos, lit. 'word, discourse, or reason') is a term used in Western philosophy, psychology and rhetoric, as well as religion (notably Christianity); among its connotations is that of a rational form of discourse that relies on inductive and deductive ...