The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἡμῐ-“half”
- English todayhemippe
From the subspecific epithet hemippus, from Ancient Greek ἡμῐ- (hēmĭ-, “half”) + ῐ̔́ππος (hĭ́ppos, “horse”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἡμῐ- all →
hemi-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.