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Meaning & History
Italian: from the personal name Ippolito (classical Greek Hippolytos, composed of the elements hippos ‘horse’ + lyein ‘loose’, ‘release’). This was the name of various minor early Christian saints. (In classical mythology Hippolytos was a young man who rejected the incestuous advances of his stepmother Phaedra.)