ephippium

English

Etymology

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Ancient Greek ἐφίππιον (ephíppion), from ἐπῐ́ (epí) + ἵππος (híppos, “horse”).

Noun

ephippium (plural ephippia)

  1. (anatomy) A depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.
  2. (zoology) A saddle-shaped cavity to contain the winter eggs, situated on the back of Diplostraca.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ephippium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐφίππιον (ephíppion).

Pronunciation

Noun

ephippium n (genitive ephippiī or ephippī); second declension

  1. saddlecloth, caparison

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

References
  • “ephippium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ephippium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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