Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Amazon in Greek mythology, daughter of Ares, from Greek Hippolyte, fem. of Hippolytos (see Hippolytus).
Wikipedia
Hippolyte or Hippolyta was the Amazonian queen with a magic girdle, in Greek mythology.
Hippolyte or Hippolyta may also refer to:
Hippolyte is a genus of shrimp of the family Hippolytidae, containing the following species:
- Hippolyte acuta (Stimpson, 1860)
- Hippolyte australiensis (Stimpson, 1860)
- Hippolyte bifidirostris (Miers, 1876)
- Hippolyte californiensis Holmes, 1895
- Hippolyte caradina Holthuis, 1947
- Hippolyte catagrapha d'Udekem d'Acoz, 2007
- Hippolyte clarki Chace, 1951
- Hippolyte coerulescens (Fabricius, 1775)
- Hippolyte edmondsoni Hayashi, 1981
- Hippolyte garciarasoi d'Udekem d'Acoz, 1996
- Hippolyte holthuisi Zariquiey-Alvarez, 1953
- Hippolyte inermis Leach, 1815
- Hippolyte jarvinensis Hayashi, 1981
- Hippolyte kraussiana (Stimpson, 1860)
- Hippolyte lagarderei d'Udekem d'Acoz, 1995
- Hippolyte leptocerus (Heller, 1863)
- Hippolyte leptometrae Ledoyer, 1969
- Hippolyte longiallex d'Udekem d'Acoz, 2007
- Hippolyte longirostris (Czerniavsky, 1868)
- Hippolyte multicolorata Yaldwyn, 1971
- Hippolyte nicholsoni Chace, 1972
- Hippolyte niezabitowskii d'Udekem d'Acoz, 1996
- Hippolyte obliquimanus Dana, 1852
- Hippolyte palliola Kensley, 1970
- Hippolyte pleuracantha (Stimpson, 1871)
- Hippolyte prideauxiana Leach, 1817
- Hippolyte proteus (Paul'son, 1875)
- Hippolyte sapphica d'Udekem d'Acoz, 1993
- Hippolyte varians Leach, 1814
- Hippolyte ventricosa H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
- Hippolyte williamsi Schmitt, 1924c
- Hippolyte zostericola (Smith, 1873)
Usage examples of "hippolyte".
Among the friends of Castaing were two young men of about his own age, Auguste and Hippolyte Ballet.
Though called to the bar, both Auguste and Hippolyte Ballet were now men of independent means.
Castaing admitted that he had seen a draft of a will executed by Hippolyte in favour of his sister, but he denied having told Auguste that Lebret had in his possession a copy which he was prepared to destroy for 100,000 francs.
If there is such a thing as an immortal soul, I shall see Hippolyte and Auguste Ballet again.
Hippolyte figuring in the bacchic dance in the midst of a chorus of joyous boon-companions, and thus proving to all eyes by his verve and his capers his complete cure?
Hotel, Hippolyte Afanasievich Fet, the gloomy KGB rezident, kept an eye on the CIA officers drinking bottles of Murree beers at the first table off the seedy lobby.
Hippolyte Gravier from the plantation downriver from Beau Repos, had also been pressed to extend his visit past the noon hour.
Neither Ambrose Pare, applying for the first time since Celsus, after an interval of fifteen centuries, a ligature to an artery, nor Dupuytren, about to open an abscess in the brain, nor Gensoul when he first took away the superior maxilla, had hearts that trembled, hands that shook, minds so strained as Monsieur Bovary when he approached Hippolyte, his tenotome between his fingers.
Ambrose Pare, applying for the first time since Celsus, after an interval of fifteen centuries, a ligature to an artery, nor Dupuytren, about to open an abscess in the brain, nor Gensoul when he first took away the superior maxilla, had hearts that trembled, hands that shook, minds so strained as Monsieur Bovary when he approached Hippolyte, his tenotome between his fingers.
Prince Hippolyte, having brought the workbag, joined the circle and moving a chair close to hers seated himself beside her.
Fandorin realized that Hippolyte had not killed Amalia after all, but had evidently carried her off somewhere.
Under an awning Princess Sapientia sat in a camp chair, attended by Father Hugh, her favorites, her Eagle, and the servants and wet nurse who took care of baby Hippolyte.
Apart from his personal liking for Castaing, it was a source of comfort to Hippolyte, in his critical state of health, to have as his friend one whose medical knowledge was always at his service.