Etymograph

English

hippocampocortical

From hippocampus + -o- + cortical.

Formed from hippocampus + -o- + cortical

Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος ‘monster with the body of a horse and the tail…’

Late Latin hippocampus ‘a seahorse’

English hippocampus

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kert- ‘to cut’

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-s

Latin cortex ‘bark’

English cortical

Today it means

adj Relating to, or connecting, the hippocampus and the cortex.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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