Hippopotamus - Wiktionary

See also: Hippopotamus

English

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English Wikipedia has articles on:hippopotamus and HippopotamidaeWikipedia Wikipedia

Alternative forms

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• hippopotamos (archaic)
• hippotamus (misspelling, otherwise obsolete)

Etymology

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From Latin and New Latin hippopotamus, from Ancient Greek ἱπποπόταμος (hippopótamos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) (English hippo-) + ποταμός (potamós, “river”). Displaced nicker, from Old English nicor.

Pronunciation

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• (UK) IPA(key): /ˌhɪp.əˈpɒt.ə.məs/
• (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌhɪp.əˈpɑ.tə.məs/, [ˌhɪp.əˈpɑ.ɾə.məs]

  • Audio (US):

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• (Philippines) IPA(key): /hɪ.poˈpo.ta.mʊs/, /hɪ.po.poˈta.mʊs/
• (Ghana) IPA(key): /ˌhi.po̞.po̞ˈte̞ː.mo̞s/
• (Nigeria) IPA(key): /ˌhi.poˈpo.te.mɔs/
• Hyphenation: hip‧po‧po‧ta‧mus

Noun

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hippopotamus (plural hippopotami or hippopotamuses or hippopotamus)

1. A semi-aquatic, herbivorous, African hoofed mammal of the family Hippopotamidae. Synonyms: hippo, hippopotamid, river horse
2. The common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:These were the first hippopotami that we had ever seen, and, to judge by their insatiable curiosity, I should judge that we were the first white men that they had ever seen.

Derived terms

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• common hippopotamus
• dependapotamus
• hippo
• hippopotamic
• hippopotamoid
• Hippopotamus Defence
• hippopotamuslike
• pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)
• woolly hippopotamus

Related terms

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• hippo-
• hippopotamine
• Mesopotamia
• potamic

Translations

[edit] African mammal

Afrikaans: seekoei (af) Albanian: kali i Nilit m, hipopotam (sq) m, hippopotamus (sq) m Amharic: ጉማሬ (gumare) Arabic: فَرَس نَهْر m (faras nahr) Chadian Arabic: قرنتي m (girinti) Egyptian Arabic: سَيِّد قِشْطه m (sayyed ʔešṭa) Hijazi Arabic: فَرَس النَّهْر m (faras an-nahar) South Levantine Arabic: فرس النهر m (faras in-náher) Tunisian Arabic: ليپوپوتام m (lipuputēm) Aragonese: hipopotamo m Armenian: գետաձի (hy) (getaji), բեգեմոտ (hy) (begemot) (colloquial) Assamese: জলহস্তী (zolohosti) Asturian: hipopótamu (ast) m Ateso: emiria Azerbaijani: begemot (az), su atı Bangi: ngubu Basque: hipopotamo (eu) Beja: iisin Belarusian: бегемо́т m (bjehjemót), гіпапата́м m (hipapatám) Bengali: জলহস্তী (bn) (jolohosti) Bulgarian: хипопота́м (bg) m (hipopotám), ре́чен кон m (réčen kon), бегемо́т m (begemót) (dated) Burmese: ရေမြင်း (my) (re-mrang:) Catalan: hipopòtam (ca) m Cerma: yoŋo Chichewa: mvuú class 9, ndomondo class 9, madzi abisa ndiwo class 6 Chinese: Cantonese: 河馬 / 河马 (ho4 maa5) Hakka: 河馬 / 河马 (hò-mâ) Hokkien: 河馬 / 河马 (zh-min-nan) (hô-bé) Mandarin: 河馬 / 河马 (zh) (hémǎ) Chuvash: бегемот (begemot) Cornish: dowrvargh m Crimean Tatar: suv ayğırı Czech: hroch (cs) m Danish: flodhest (da) c Dime: ʔarú Dutch: nijlpaard (nl) n Dyula: mali, mɛli Egyptian: (ḫꜣb), (db) Erzya: леельде f (lejelde) Esperanto: hipopotamo (eo) Estonian: jõehobu (et) Faroese: áarross n Finnish: virtahepo (fi) French: hippopotame (fr) m, hippo (fr) m, cheval marin (fr) m Galician: hipopótamo (gl) m Georgian: ჰიპოპოტამი (hiṗoṗoṭami), ბეჰემოთი (behemoti) German: Flusspferd (de) n, Nilpferd (de) n Greek: ιπποπόταμος (el) m (ippopótamos) Ancient: ἱπποπόταμος m (hippopótamos), ἵππος ποτάμιος m (híppos potámios) Greenlandic: imermiutarsuaq (kl) Hamer-Banna: áaɗe Hausa: dṑrinā f Hebrew: הִיפּוֹפּוֹטָם (he) m (hipopotám), בְּהֵמוֹת (he) m (b'hemót), סוּס יְאוֹר m (sus y'ór) Hindi: दरियाई घोड़ा m (dariyāī ghoṛā), जलीय घोड़ा m (jalīya ghoṛā), जलहस्ती (hi) m (jalhastī) Hungarian: víziló (hu) Icelandic: flóðhestur (is) m Indonesian: kuda nil Ingrian: begemootta Irish: dobhareach m Isoko: eniamị Italian: ippopotamo (it) m Japanese: 河馬 (ja) (かば, kaba), カバ (ja) (kaba) Kalmyk: усна үкр (usna ükr) Karang: naymbih Kazakh: бегемот (begemot), сусиыр (susiyr), су сиыры (su siyry) Khmer: ដំរីទឹក (dɑmrəy tɨk) Kituba: nguvu Kongo: nguvu Korean: 하마(河馬) (ko) (hama) Kumyk: суват (suwat) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: hespê avê (ku) Kyrgyz: бегемот (ky) (begemot), гиппопотам (ky) (gippopotam) Lao: ຊ້າງນ້ຳ (sāng nam) Latin: hippopotamus m Latvian: nīlzirgs, hipopotams, behemots m Lingala: ngubú, ngubu Lithuanian: hipopotamas (lt) m, begemotas m, upėarklis m Macedonian: нилски коњ m (nilski konj) Malay: badak air Malayalam: നീർക്കുതിര (ml) (nīṟkkutira), ഹിപ്പോപ്പൊട്ടാമസ് (ml) (hippōppoṭṭāmasŭ) Maltese: ippopotamu m Manx: cabbylawin m Marathi: पाणघोड m (pāṇghoḍ) Miya: su ándázhi Mongo: ngubu Mongolian: Cyrillic: усны үхэр (usny üxer), армана (mn) (armana), армаана (armaana), усан тахь (usan taxʹ) (China) Mongolian: ᠤᠰᠤᠨ ᠦᠦᠬᠡᠷ (usun-ü üker), ᠠᠷᠠᠮᠠᠨ᠎ᠠ (araman-a), ᠤᠰᠤᠨᠲᠠᠬᠢ (usun taki) Nandi: makas Navajo: tééhoołtsódii Nogai: зил (zil) Norwegian: Bokmål: flodhest m Nynorsk: flodhest m Occitan: ipopotam (oc) m Odia: ଦରିଆ ଘୋଡ଼ା (or) (dariā ghoṟḍ̠ā) Ojibwe: gchi-bgwaji-gookoosh anim Old English: nicor m Ossetian: бегемот (begemot) Ottoman Turkish: صو آیغری (su ayğırı), آت بالغی (at balığı), هیپوپوتام (hipopotam) Pashto: د اوبو آس Persian: اسب آبی (asb-e âbi) Polish: hipopotam (pl) m Portuguese: hipopótamo (pt) m Punjabi: ਦਰਿਆਈ ਘੋੜਾ m (dariāī ghoṛā) Romani: hipopotàmo Romanian: hipopotam (ro) m Russian: гиппопота́м (ru) m (gippopotám), бегемо́т (ru) m (begemót) Salar: su at Sambe: tòbárì Sanskrit: करियाद m (kariyāda) Scottish Gaelic: each-aibhne m, capall-abhainn m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: поводни коњ m, нилски коњ m Roman: povodni konj m, nilski konj m Sinhalese: හිපපොටේමස් (hipapoṭēmas) Slovak: hroch (sk) m Slovene: povodni konj (sl) m, nilski konj m Somali: jeer (so) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: wódny kóń m Sotho: kubu (st) Spanish: hipopótamo (es) m Supyire: kòòntìrìŋè Swahili: kiboko (sw) Swedish: flodhäst (sv) c Tagalog: ipopotamo Tajik: баҳмут (tg) (bahmut), аспи обӣ (asp-i obi) Tamil: நீரானை (nīrāṉai) Tatar: гиппопотам (gippopotam), (male) су үгезе (su ügeze), (female) су сыеры (su sıyırı) Thai: ฮิปโปโปเตมัส (th) (híp-bpoo-bpoo-dtee-más) Tibetan: ཆུ་རྟ (chu rta) Tigrinya: ጉማረ (gumarä) Tooro: enjubu class 9, ensere class 9 Tsonga: mpfuvu Tumbuka: chigwere class 1a Turkana: epiri Turkish: su aygırı (tr), hipopotam (tr) Turkmen: gippopotam, suw aty, begemot (tk) Ukrainian: гіпопота́м m (hipopotám), бегемо́т (uk) m (behemót) Urdu: دریائی گھوڑا m (dariyā'ī ghoṛā) Uyghur: سۇ ئېتى (su ëti), بېگېموت (bëgëmot) Uzbek: begemot (uz), suv oti, gippopotam (uz) Venda: mvuvhu Vietnamese: lợn nước, hà mã (vi) (河馬) Volapük: hiopot, flumedajevod Warji: ndaaje Welsh: afonfarch, hipopotamws Wolof: léebéer bi Xhosa: imvubu class 9/10 Yao: ndomondo class 9 Yiddish: היפּאָפּאָטאַם m (hipopotam) Zhuang: hozmaj Zulu: ingexe, imvubu (zu) class 9/10

See also

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• hypotenuse
• hypothalamus

Latin

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ἱπποπόταμος (hippopótamos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + ποταμός (potamós, “river”).

Pronunciation

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• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hɪp.pɔˈpɔ.ta.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ip.poˈpɔː.ta.mus]

Noun

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hippopotamus m (genitive hippopotamī); second declension

1. a hippopotamus

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

singular	plural
nominative	hippopotamus	hippopotamī
genitive	hippopotamī	hippopotamōrum
dative	hippopotamō	hippopotamīs
accusative	hippopotamum	hippopotamōs
ablative	hippopotamō	hippopotamīs
vocative	hippopotame	hippopotamī

Descendants

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• Asturian: hipopótamu
• Catalan: hipopòtam
• French: hippopotame
• Italian: ippopotamo
• Leonese: hipopótamu
• Occitan: ipopotam
• Portuguese: hipopótamo
• Romanian: hipopotam
• Spanish: hipopótamo
• → English: hippopotamus
  • → Hindi: हिप्पोपोटामस (hippopoṭāmas)

References

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• “hippopotamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hippopotamus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.