ἱππότης

See also: ιππότης

Ancient Greek

From ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) +‎ -της (-tēs, “-er”, agentive suffix).

ῐ̔ππότης • (hĭppótēs) m (genitive ῐ̔ππότου); first declension

a horse-rider, horseman, knight
(as an epithet of Nestor and other heroes in Homer)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.253:
  τὸν δ’ ἠμείβετ’ ἔπειτα Γερήνιος ἱππότα Νέστωρ·
  tòn d’ ēmeíbet’ épeita Gerḗnios hippóta Néstōr;
  Then the Gerenian horseman Nestor answered him:

First declension of ὁ ῐ̔ππότης; τοῦ ῐ̔ππότου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῐ̔ππότης ho hĭppótēs	τὼ ῐ̔ππότᾱ tṑ hĭppótā	οἱ ῐ̔ππόται hoi hĭppótai
Genitive	τοῦ ῐ̔ππότου toû hĭppótou	τοῖν ῐ̔ππόταιν toîn hĭppótain	τῶν ῐ̔πποτῶν tôn hĭppotôn
Dative	τῷ ῐ̔ππότῃ tōî hĭppótēi	τοῖν ῐ̔ππόταιν toîn hĭppótain	τοῖς ῐ̔ππόταις toîs hĭppótais
Accusative	τὸν ῐ̔ππότην tòn hĭppótēn	τὼ ῐ̔ππότᾱ tṑ hĭppótā	τοὺς ῐ̔ππότᾱς toùs hĭppótās
Vocative	ῐ̔ππότᾰ hĭppótă	ῐ̔ππότᾱ hĭppótā	ῐ̔ππόται hĭppótai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“ἱππότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἱππότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cavalier idem, page 119.
- equestrian idem, page 280.
- horseman idem, page 407.
- knight idem, page 470.
- mounted idem, page 543.
- rider idem, page 713.
- riding idem, page 714.