hippomanes

From Latin hippomanes, from Ancient Greek ἱππομᾰνής (hippomănḗs); see hippo- and the related suffix -mania.

hippomanes (uncountable)

1. An ancient love philter obtained from a mare or foal in heat.
   • 1908, Theodore Chickering Williams, transl., “On His Lady's Avarice”, in The Elegies of Tibullus‎^[1], translation of original by Tibullus:

     Let Circe and Medea bring the lees / Of some foul cup! Let Thessaly prepare / Its direst poison! Bring hippomanes, / Fierce philtre from the frantic, brooding mare!

2. A membrane on the forehead of a foal, used in love potions.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 120:

     Hippomanes was used in ancient Roman potions as an aphrodisiac.

From Ancient Greek ἱππομᾰνής (hippomănḗs), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + μαίνομαι (maínomai, “to rage, to be crazy”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɪpˈpɔ.ma.nɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ipˈpɔː.ma.nes]

hippomanes n (genitive hippomanis); third declension

1. an aphrodisiac obtained from the discharge of a mare in heat
2. a membrane on the forehead of a foal, used in love-potions

Third-declension noun.

• “hippomanes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hippomanes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers