hippogriff
Apr. 16th, 2007 07:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordhippogriff - n., a creature having the wings, claws, and head of a griffin and the body and hindquarters of a horse.
Traditionally, the offspring of a griffin and a mare. Wiki has some background -- the Virgil bit is interesting. From French, from Italian, from ippo (from Greek hippo, horse) + grifo (from Latin gryphus, griffin, itself from Greek grỳ„p-, having a curved nose).
---L.
Traditionally, the offspring of a griffin and a mare. Wiki has some background -- the Virgil bit is interesting. From French, from Italian, from ippo (from Greek hippo, horse) + grifo (from Latin gryphus, griffin, itself from Greek grỳ„p-, having a curved nose).
---L.
