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a_new_sad_me@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

This happened to me, but then I went to investigate where the name “campus” came from, since campus has nothing to do with sea in Greek. All I found is that there was a sea monster in Greek mythology of that name …

(In Percy Jackson, there are sea horse which are proper horses only of the sea, I’m not sure where Rick Riden took the inspiration for them from)

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name_NULL111653@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Campus might be from the Latin “campus, ī, 2m” for field or plain… maybe something to do with the “horse” part of it?

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- a_new_sad_me@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Interesting.
  
  I wonder what I did wrong in the first time I searched for this that I couldn’t find anything.
  
  So if I understand this correctly it is Greek mythology -> actual sea creature -> brain part.
  
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  - name_NULL111653@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Pretty much. And for etymology searches like this Wiktionary is a life saver. Just type in hippocampus and follow the link rabbit holes, and it gives you the etymology: hippocampus < hippocamp (mythical sea monster) < hippos (horse) + kampos (shark).
    
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