Hippocrene

[ hip-uh-kreen, hip-uh-kree-nee ]

/ ˈhɪp əˌkrin, ˌhɪp əˈkri ni /

a spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration.

OTHER WORDS FROM Hippocrene

Hip·po·cre·ni·an, adjective

Grecian mythology said that the fountain of Hippocrene was struck out by the foot of the winged horse Pegasus.

New Tabernacle Sermons |Thomas De Witt Talmage
Hippocrene, the spring of the Muses, said to have been created by the hoof-beat of Pegasus.

The Last Poems of Ovid |Ovid
Hippocrene was probably at Makariotissa, which is noted for a fine spring of water.

The Geography of Strabo, Volume II (of 3) |Strabo
Such is the effect of too copious draughts from that Hippocrene which alternately discharges cock-tail and mint-julep.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 |Various

That is to drink of the fountain of Hippocrene, to write verse.

The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare |J. J. Jusserand

Hippocrene

/ (ˈhɪpəʊˌkriːn, ˌhɪpəʊˈkriːnɪ) /

a spring on Mount Helicon in Greece, said to engender poetic inspiration

Hippocrenian, adjective

C17: via Latin from Greek hippos horse + krēnē spring