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- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromἀνθιππασία
- English todayanthippasia
From Ancient Greek ἀνθιππασία (anthippasía), from ἀντί (antí) + ἱππεύς (hippeús) + -ιον (-ion), literally “knightly-contest”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
anthippasia
Today it means: A traditional cavalry display in Ancient Athens; in particular, a series of contests occurring later in the democratic period as a contest between tribal cavalry units at Athenian festivals such as the Olympieia and Panathenaea. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἀνθιππασία