Editing Hippogriff (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''hippogriff'', also spelled ''hippogryph'',<ref name="Complement du Dictionnaire de l'Académie française">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nks_AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA478 |title=Complément du Diction sire de l'Académie française|language=fr|last1=Française|first1=Académie|year=1843}}</ref> is derived from the {{langx|grc|ἵππος}} {{grc-transl|ἵππος}}, meaning "horse", and the Italian ''grifo'' meaning "[[griffin]]" (from [[Latin]]: ''gryp'' or ''grypus'' from {{langx|grc|γρύψ|grýps|link=no}}), which denotes another mythical creature, with the head of an eagle and body of a lion, that is purported to be the father of the hippogriff.<ref name="Larousse">{{harvsp|Sevestre|Rosier|1983|pp=16–17}}</ref><ref name="Wagner124">{{harvsp|Wagner|2006|p=124}}</ref> The word ''hippogriff'' was adopted into English shortly before 1615;<ref name="Websteren">{{cite web|url=http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/hippogriff?cx=partner-pub-0939450753529744%3Av0qd01-tdlq&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=hippogriff&sa=Search#906|title=Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110228193149/http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/Hippogriff?cx=partner-pub-0939450753529744%3Av0qd01-tdlq&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=Hippogriff&sa=Search#906|archive-date=2011-02-28}}</ref> prior to this, John Harington's 1591 translation of ''Orlando furioso'' called the creature a "Griffith horse."

The Hippogypians mentioned in ''Vera Historia'', a fantastic travelogue written by the Roman author [[Lucian of Samosata]] in the Second Century A.D. suggest another likely source for the word. However, in that text, the term is used to refer to a race of moon-dwelling riders that employ gigantic three-headed vultures as steeds.