hippagogi

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῐ̔ππᾰγωγοί (hĭppăgōgoí, plural adjective of ῐ̔ππᾰγωγός (hĭppăgōgós, “carrying horses”)).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɪp.paˈɡoː.ɡiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ip.paˈɡɔː.d͡ʒi]

hippagōgī f pl (genitive hippagōgōrum); second declension

1. vessels for transporting horses; cavalry transports
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 44.28.7:

     quinque et triginta naves, quas hippagogus vocant, ab Elaea profectae cum equitibus Gallis equisque Phanas

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Second-declension noun, plural only, with Greek-type accusative.

• hippāginēs
• hippēgus

• “hippagogi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press