- Hip|po|crene
- Hip|po|crene «HIHP uh kreen, HIHP uh KREE nee», noun. Greek Mythology.1. a fountain on Mount Helicon, sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration. It was supposed to have been produced by a stroke of Pegasus' hoof.2. the waters of the fountain: »
O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene (Keats).
╂[< Latin Hippocrēnē < Greek Hippokrē < híppos horse + kr
ē fountain]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.