ἱππότης

• ῐ̔ππότᾰ m (hĭppótă) — Epic
• ῐ̔ππότᾱς (hĭppótās) — Doric, uncommon in Attic

From ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) +‎ -της (-tēs, “-er”, agentive suffix).

ῐ̔ππότης • (hĭppótēs) m (genitive ῐ̔ππότου); first declension

1. a horse-rider; horseman; knight

   Synonym: ῐ̔ππεύς (hĭppeús)

2. (as an epithet of Nestor and other heroes in Homer)
   • c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.253:

     τὸν δ’ ἠμείβετ’ ἔπειτα Γερήνιος ἱππότα Νέστωρ·

     tòn d’ ēmeíbet’ épeita Gerḗnios hippóta Néstōr;

     Then the Gerenian horseman Nestor answered him:

• In Homer and Hesiod, the vocative singular ῐ̔ππότᾰ (hĭppótă) serves as the nominative singular.

• “ἱππότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἱππότης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cavalier idem, page 119.
  • equestrian idem, page 280.
  • horseman idem, page 407.
  • knight idem, page 470.
  • mounted idem, page 543.
  • rider idem, page 713.
  • riding idem, page 714.