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say it: HIP-uh-krayts
hippocrates is a noun meaning "medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic oath (circa 460-377 BC)". It is pronounced /ˈhɪpəˌkɹeɪts/ — HIP-uh-krayts. It carries one recorded sense.
medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic oath (circa 460-377 BC)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hippocrates come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.