hipocampo

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: hi‧po‧cam‧po === Noun === hipocampo m (plural hipocampos) (Greek mythology) hippocampus; hippocamp (creature that is half horse and half fish) (anatomy) hippocampus (region of the brain that plays a role in memory and emotion) sea horse (any of the various small marine fish of the genus Hippocampus) Synonym: cavalo-marinho === Further reading === “hipocampo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Late Latin hippocampus (“sea horse”), from Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippókampos, “sea horse, hippocamp”, from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) +‎ κάμπος (kámpos, “sea monster”)), describing a mythological creature with a horse's forepart and a fishlike hindquarter. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ipoˈkampo/ [i.poˈkãm.po] Rhymes: -ampo Syllabification: hi‧po‧cam‧po === Noun === hipocampo m (plural hipocampos) (neuroanatomy) hippocampus (zoology) sea horse Synonym: caballito de mar (Greek mythology) hippocamp; hippocampus === Further reading === “hipocampo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025