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I SAW to-day in the last number of NATURE, a letter on the meaning of the word horse-chestnut. As I do not see NATURE regularly, I do not know whether any of your correspondents have called your attention to the similar use of ίππos in composition. In case this should have escaped them, I send the following extract from Liddell and Scott:—
“ίππos, vi., in Compos.; it expressed anything large or coarse, as in our horse-chestnut, horse-laugh; v. ίππó-κρημνos, -μάραθρoν, -σɛλινoν, -ɛφiα, -πorνos; cf. βo-.”
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MOGGRIDGE, M. The Horse-Chestnut. Nature 2, 313–314 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002313d0
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