hippopotamus

英 [,h?p?'p?t?m?s] 美

TEM4GRE暢通詞匯哺乳動物

復數:?hippopotamuses;

1. hippo- + potam- + -us (Latin suffix).
2. => river horse, horse of the river.

hippopotamus 河馬

hippo-,馬，-potamus,河，詞源同potamology,Mesopotamia.即河中的馬。

hippopotamus: hippopotamus: [16] Etymologically, a hippopotamus is a ‘river horse’. The word comes, via Latin, from late Greek hippopótamos, a lexicalization of an earlier phrase híppos ho potámios, literally ‘horse of the river’. Other English descendants of híppos (a relative of Latin equus ‘horse’) include hippodrome [16], from a Greek compound that meant originally ‘horse-race’ (-drome occurs also in aerodrome and dromedary), and the name Philip, literally ‘lover of horses’. The abbreviation hippo, incidentally, dates from the mid-19th century.
=> equine, hippodrome
hippopotamus (n.): 1560s, from Late Latin hippopotamus, from Greek hippopotamus "riverhorse" (earlier ho hippos ho potamios "the horse of the river"), from hippos "horse" (see equine) + potamos "river, rushing water" (see potamo-). Replaced Middle English ypotame (c. 1300), which is from the same source but via Old French. Glossed in Old English as s?hengest.
Ypotamos comen flyngynge. ... Grete bestes and griselich ["Kyng Alisaunder," c. 1300]

2. The children enjoyed watching the hippopotamus wallowing ( about ) in the mud.: 孩子們真喜觀看河馬在泥中打滾.

4. A huge animal, possibly hippopotamus, described in the Old Testament.: 在舊約中描述的宏大動物, 可能是河馬.

5. The children enjoyed watching the hippopotamus wallowing in the mud.: 孩子們喜歡看河馬在泥中打滾.