Search for: Horses
7101 Etymology dictionary, p. heat (n.).3
… a horse race, is from 1660s, perhaps from earlier figurative sense of "violent action; a single intense effort" (late 14c.), or the meaning "run given to a horse to …
7102 Etymology dictionary, p. heavyweight.2
also heavy-weight, noun and adjective, 1857 of horses; 1877 of fighters; from heavy (adj.) + weight. Figuratively, in reference to importance, from 1928.
7103 Etymology dictionary, p. henchman (n.).2
… hengest "horse, stallion, gelding," from Proto-Germanic *hangistas (source also of Old Frisian hengst, Dutch hengest, German Hengst "stallion"), perhaps literally …
7104 Etymology dictionary, p. henchman (n.).3
… -maðr "horse-boy, groom." The word became obsolete in England 17c., but it was retained in Scottish as "personal attendant of a Highland chief," in which sense Scott …
7105 Etymology dictionary, p. high horse (n.).1
high horse (n.)
7106 Etymology dictionary, p. high horse (n.).2
… , tall horse; war horse, charger" ( high steed is from c. 1300), also, like high hall, used in the sense "status symbol;" figurative sense of "airs, easily wounded dignity …
7107 Etymology dictionary, p. hippo-.2
before vowels, hipp-, word-forming element meaning "horse," from Greek hippo-, from hippos "horse," from PIE root *ekwo- "horse."
7108 Etymology dictionary, p. hippocampus (n.).2
… hippos "horse" (from PIE root *ekwo- "horse") + kampos "a sea monster," which is perhaps related to kampe "caterpillar." Used from 1570s as a name of a type of fish (the seahorse …
7109 Etymology dictionary, p. Hippocratic (adj.).2
… in horses;" from hippos "horse" (from PIE root *ekwo- "horse") + kratia "rule" (see -cracy ).
7110 Etymology dictionary, p. Hippocrene.2
… , literally "horse's fountain," from genitive of hippos "horse" (from PIE root *ekwo- "horse") + krēnē "fountain," which is of uncertain origin.
7111 Etymology dictionary, p. hippocrepian (adj.).2
"horseshoe-shaped," 1852, from Latinized form of Greek hippos "horse" (from PIE root *ekwo- "horse.") + krēpis "a boot, half-boot, man's high boot," which is of uncertain origin.
7112 Etymology dictionary, p. hippodrome (n.).2
… hippos "horse" (from PIE root *ekwo- "horse") + dromos "course" (see dromedary ). In modern use, "circus performance place" (mid-19c.), and thus extended to "large theater for …
7113 Etymology dictionary, p. hippogriff (n.).2
… hippos "horse" (from PIE root *ekwo- "horse") + Italian grifo, from Late Latin gryphus "griffin" (see griffin ). A creature part griffin, but with body and hind parts in the …
7114 Etymology dictionary, p. Hippolytus.2
… "letting horses loose," from hippos "horse" (from PIE root *ekwo- "horse") + stem of lyein "to unfasten, loose, loosen, untie" (from PIE root *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart …
7115 Etymology dictionary, p. hippomania (n.).2
"excessive fondness for horses" (especially in reference to the intense and passionate interest in horses developed in some girls between ages 10 and 14), 1956, from hippo- "horse" + mania .
7116 Etymology dictionary, p. hippomobile (n.).2
1900, "A word used in the early days of motor vehicles for a horse-drawn vehicle" [OED], from French, from hippo- "horse" + ending from automobile .
7117 Etymology dictionary, p. hippophagy (n.).2
"act or practice of feeding on horseflesh," 1823, from hippo- "horse" + -phagy "eating" (see -phagous ). Ptolemy uses hippophagi of certain nomadic tribes of central Asia. Related: Hippophagous (1828).
7118 Etymology dictionary, p. hippophile (n.).2
"horse-lover," 1852, from hippo- "horse" + -phile "one that loves."
7119 Etymology dictionary, p. hippopotamus (n.).2
… "the horse of the river"), from hippos "horse" (from PIE root *ekwo- "horse") + adjective from potamos "river, rushing water" (see potamo- ). Replaced Middle English ypotame …
7120 Etymology dictionary, p. hitch (v.).2
… hitch horses together "get along well," especially of married couples, is from 1837, American English). Short for hitchhike (v.) by 1931. Related: Hitched; hitching …