different between griffon vs hippogriff

English

Etymology

See griffin.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?f?n

Noun

griffon (plural griffons)

1. Alternative form of griffin (legendary creature)
2. A breed of dog usually called the Brussels Griffon, reminiscent of the legendary creature.
3. A griffon vulture.

Translations

Anagrams

• offring, ring off

French

Etymology

From Old French grifon (grif + -on), from Latin gr?phus, gryps, from Ancient Greek ???? (grúps).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i.f??/

Noun

griffon m (plural griffons)

1. griffin (legendary creature)
2. griffon vulture
3. common swift

References

• “griffon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

griffon m (plural griffons)

1. (Jersey) scarifier

Old French

Alternative forms

• gripun, gripoun

Etymology

From grif +? -on, from Latin gryps, from Ancient Greek ???? (grúps)

Noun

griffon m (oblique plural griffons, nominative singular griffons, nominative plural griffon)

1. griffin (legendary creature)
2. griffin (person of Greek, Middle Eastern or Asian descent)

Descendants

• Middle English: griffoun, griphon, grefoun, gryffoun, gryffone, gryffon, grifown, griphonne, gryffyn, griffone, grefyne
  • English: griffin, griffon, gryphon
• French: griffon

English

Alternative forms

• hippogryph

Etymology

From French hippogriffe, from Ancient Greek ????? (híppos, “horse”) + ???? (grúps, “griffin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?p????f/
• Hyphenation: hip?po?griff

Noun

hippogriff (plural hippogriffs)

1. a mythical beast, half griffin and half horse, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a filly.
   • 1732, July 18, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., volume 12 published 1801, page 478:

     To talk of being able to ride with stirrups, is trifling: get on Pegasus, bestride the hippogryph, or mount the white nag in the Revelation.

   • 1753, November 12, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, published with English translation in 1779 in Miscellaneous Works of the Late Philip Dormer Stanhope, second edition, volume 3, lettre LXXIII, pages 298–299:

     Je crains done qu'il faudra que nous nous contentions de quelque moyen plus simple et plus facile, comme d'un enchanteur à gages, un hippogriffe, ou au moins de quelque génie bienfaisant, …

     So I doubt we must be content with some more simple and easy method, such as a magician in our pay, a hippogryph, or at least some kind genius, …

   • 1800 Dec., Sir Richard Phillips, The Monthly magazine, Volume 10, No. 66, page 407:

     Yet the work is surely not a mere map of the hippogryffon wanderings of some disordered imagination…

   • 1831, The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume 52, page 164:

     I imagine a Hippogryph. The Hippogryph is at once the object of the act and the act itself. Abstract the one, the other has no existence: deny me the consciousness of the Hippogryph, you deny me the consciousness of the imagination; I am conscious of zero; I am not conscious at all.

   • 1908, Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, Four Plays of Aeschylus, Introduction, page xiv

     Oceanus himself follows on a hippogriff, and counsels Prometheus to submit to Zeus.

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