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See also: ιππότης

ῐ̔ππότης • ‎(hippótēs) m ‎(genitive ῐ̔ππότου); first declension

a horse-rider, horseman, knight
(as an epithet of Nestor and other heros in Homer)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.253
  τὸν δ' ἠμείβετ' ἔπειτα Γερήνιος ἱππότα Νέστωρ·
  Then the Gerenian horseman Nestor answered him:

First declension of ὁ ῐ̔ππότης; τοῦ ῐ̔ππότου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῐ̔ππότης	τὼ ῐ̔ππότᾱ	οἱ ῐ̔ππόται
Genitive	τοῦ ῐ̔ππότου	τοῖν ῐ̔ππόταιν	τῶν ῐ̔πποτῶν
Dative	τῷ ῐ̔ππότῃ	τοῖν ῐ̔ππόταιν	τοῖς ῐ̔ππόταις
Accusative	τὸν ῐ̔ππότην	τὼ ῐ̔ππότᾱ	τοὺς ῐ̔ππότᾱς
Vocative	ῐ̔ππότης	ῐ̔ππότᾱ	ῐ̔ππόται
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

ἱππότης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἱππότης in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cavalier idem, page 119.
- equestrian idem, page 280.
- horseman idem, page 406.
- knight idem, page 470.
- mounted idem, page 543.
- rider idem, page 713.
- riding idem, page 714.