COMPOUND: ἱππόκομος, -ον
CATEGORIZATION: A [N+N+Suf]
MEANING: ‘decked with horse-hair’
ETYMOLOGY: noun stem ἱππο- (ἵππος) ‘horse’ + noun root κομ- (κόμη) ‘hair of the head’ + adj. suf. -ος, -ον
OCCURRENCE: Il. XII, 339; XIII, 132; XVI, 216, 338, 797
CASE/GENDER/NUMBER: gen. f. (target gender) pl., nom. f. (target gender) pl., gen. f. (target gender) sg., acc. f. (target gender) sg.
HEADEDNESS: exocentric
CLASSIFICATION: attributive – bahuvrīhi
NOTES: the adjective only occurs in the feminine gender