hippeus

Ancient Greek ἱππεύς (hippeús)

hippeus (plural hippeis)

1. (historical) A member of the Ancient Greek cavalry; a man who owned a warhorse.

• huppies

From Ancient Greek ἱππεύς (hippeús).

hippeus m (genitive hippeī); second declension

1. (astronomy) A type of comet

Second-declension noun.

• “hippeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hippeus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “hippeus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “hippeus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray