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<p>[QUOTE="Sealgair, post: 5377985, member: 97867"]Re the collective for hippocampus: It would likely depend on how we view the various parts of iconography and mythology, plus the linguistics. The term itself means “horse” + “sea-monster”. [A nerdy and much simplified etymological footnote: kampos originates in PIE *qamp- ‘bend’ which becomes e.g. L campus ‘open field’ but also Gk kampe ‘caterpillar’, from which our form comes. So jokes about sea-monsters at our universities might be appropriate but obscure as could be!] Choosing the horse bit suggests “herd”, though if we favor only the male gender, I like “harrass” (a group of stallions). (Both of those have an attractive alliteration, too.) I don’t recall ever seeing a Greek collective for sea monsters, and given the organizational structure of classical mythology, I would be a little surprised to find one. But the morphology of the critters themselves is mostly fish-like, so “shoal” would work. Finally, the focus could be on the ‘monster’ aspect. The recent resurgence of horror has produced many neologisms (including the lovely “lurch of zombies”), and Rowling or Guillermo del Toro may have ones in their minds, but nothing comes to the surface. Clearly we need to get to work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sealgair, post: 5377985, member: 97867"]Re the collective for hippocampus: It would likely depend on how we view the various parts of iconography and mythology, plus the linguistics. The term itself means “horse” + “sea-monster”. [A nerdy and much simplified etymological footnote: kampos originates in PIE *qamp- ‘bend’ which becomes e.g. L campus ‘open field’ but also Gk kampe ‘caterpillar’, from which our form comes. So jokes about sea-monsters at our universities might be appropriate but obscure as could be!] Choosing the horse bit suggests “herd”, though if we favor only the male gender, I like “harrass” (a group of stallions). (Both of those have an attractive alliteration, too.) I don’t recall ever seeing a Greek collective for sea monsters, and given the organizational structure of classical mythology, I would be a little surprised to find one. But the morphology of the critters themselves is mostly fish-like, so “shoal” would work. Finally, the focus could be on the ‘monster’ aspect. The recent resurgence of horror has produced many neologisms (including the lovely “lurch of zombies”), and Rowling or Guillermo del Toro may have ones in their minds, but nothing comes to the surface. Clearly we need to get to work.[/QUOTE]
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