Noun: hipocrás
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | hipocrás |
| Plural m | hipocrases |
Sample Sentences
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que n'o Hipocràs non pases
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deo medio neto. (on hippocras
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don't drink past half a pint) [1777, Diego Cernadas y Castro, Arcos mio:]
Etymology
From French ipocras, after Medieval Latin vinum Hippocraticum (“Hippocrates's wine”), because it was filtered through a Hippocratic sleeve.
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