Etymology

hippogonal

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Today it means: Being a move in a board game that is neither orthogonal nor diagonal, as a knight's move in chess. In chess, an (m,n) move spans m squares in one of the orthogonal directions and n squares in a perpendicular direction; the move is hippogonal if m and n are not equal and both greater than zero: 0 < n < m. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ἵππος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromἵππος“horse, cavalry”
  2. English todayhippogonal

The word was coined by David Parlett. It derives from Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos, “horse, cavalry”) [a synonym in chess for knight] and γωνία (gōnía, “angle”).

Words from the same roots

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