hippopera

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἱπποπήρα (hippopḗra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hip.poˈpeː.ra/, [hɪpːɔˈpeːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ip.poˈpe.ra/, [ipːoˈpɛːrä]

Noun

hippopēra f (genitive hippopērae); first declension

1. saddlebag, horse-holdall

   Synonyms: pēra sellāris, bulga

   • c. 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 87.9:

     M. Cato Censorius, quem tam rei publicae fuit nasci quam Scipionem (alter enim cum hostibus nostris bellum, alter cum moribus gessit), cantherio vehebatur et hippoperis quidem impositis, ut secum utilia portaret.

     Cato the Elder, him being born indeed healsome for the society like Scipio (for the one fought war with our foes, the other without our mores), rode along with a gelding and merely two saddlebags on it to stow his belongings.

   • 1680, Franciszek à Mesgnien Meninski, “خرجین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[1] (in Ottoman Turkish, Turkish, Latin, German, Italian, French, and Polish), Vienna, column 1878:
   • خرجین churḡīn, & خرجینه churḡīne, i. q. خرج churḡ. Hippopera.

     خرجین churḡīn, & خرجینه churḡīne, i. q. خرج churḡ. Saddle-bag.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	hippopēra	hippopērae
genitive	hippopērae	hippopērārum
dative	hippopērae	hippopērīs
accusative	hippopēram	hippopērās
ablative	hippopērā	hippopērīs
vocative	hippopēra	hippopērae

References

• “hippoperae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers