Xanthippos

Gender Masculine
Usage Ancient Greek [1]
Scripts Ξάνθιππος(Ancient Greek)

Meaning & History

From the Greek elements ξανθός (xanthos) meaning "yellow" and ἵππος (hippos) meaning "horse". This was the name of a 5th-century BC Athenian general.

Related Names

Rootsxanthos + hippos
Feminine FormXanthippe

Categories

animals, colors, fauna, history, horses, nature, yellow

Sources & References

  1. Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Ξάνθιππος.
Entry updated May 29, 2020