Home › Words › I › ipotaneipotaneipotane means A mythical creature depicted as a half-human, half-horse that is supposedly different from a centaur, sometimes attributed to Greek mythology.EtymologyProbably from Greek ιππότης (ippótis, “knight”), which is derived from ίππος (íppos, “horse”).nounA mythical creature depicted as a half-human, half-horse that is supposedly different from a centaur, sometimes attributed to Greek mythology.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.centaur 64% match — A mythical beast having a horse's body with a man's head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse. vs ipotane →onocentaur 64% match — A centaur with the body of an ass, instead of a prototypical horse. vs ipotane →hippocamp 61% match — A mythological creature, a cross between a horse and a fish. vs ipotane →centauresque 60% match — Having attributes like those of the mythical centaur. vs ipotane →hippocentaur 60% match — centaur vs ipotane →centauroid 60% match — Resembling a centaur in shape — particularly, a creature having an upper humanoid torso adjoining the lower quadrupedal body where the creature's head should normally appear. vs ipotane →hippocampus 58% match — A mythological creature with the front head and forelimbs of a horse and the rear of a fish. vs ipotane →bucentaur 57% match — A supposed mythical monster, half ox, half man. vs ipotane →