Word Origin Summary

Ἱππόκαμπος is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• Hippocamp

  English · derived from

• Hippocampus

  Translingual · derived from

• hipocampo

  Spanish · derived from

• гиппокамп

  Kazakh · derived from

• hippocampus

  Latin · derived from

• hipocamp

  Catalan · borrowed from

• hipocamp

  Romanian · borrowed from

• шкамп

  HBS · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root