different between kelpie vs hippocampus

English

Etymology

The dog breed derives from the name shared by the first two breeding bitches (dam and pup), which name derives from the mythological spirit.

Noun

kelpie (plural kelpies)

1. A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.
2. An Australian breed of sheepdog.
   • 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador 2014, p. 4:

     Gulls scatter before the blur of my insane kelpie.

Translations

Anagrams

• pelike

English

Etymology

From Late Latin hippocampus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (hippókampos), from??????? (híppos, “horse”) +? ?????? (kámpos, “sea-monster”). The anatomy sense is so named from its resemblance to the seahorse.

Noun

hippocampus (plural hippocampi or hippocampuses)

1. (mythology) A mythological creature with the front head and forelimbs of a horse and the rear of a dolphin.

   Synonym: hippocamp

2. (neuroanatomy, anatomy) A part of the brain located inside the temporal lobe, consisting mainly of grey matter. It is a component of the limbic system and plays a role in memory and emotion.

Synonyms

• (neuroanatomy): HIPP

Derived terms

• hippocampal
• hippocampic

Translations

Further reading

• hippocampus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hippocampus (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Alternative forms

• hippocampos

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (hippókampos), from????? (híppos, “horse”) +? ?????? (kámpos, “sea-monster”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hip.po?kam.pus/, [h?p???kämp?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ip.po?kam.pus/, [ip???k?mpus]

Noun

hippocampus m (genitive hippocamp?); second declension

1. a seahorse

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• hippocampus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hippocampus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• hippocampus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers