Hippodrome to Taraxippus (disturber of horses) there to show the spot where many chariots wrecked. A large ancient hippodrome was the Hippodrome of Constantinople, built between AD 203 and 330. However, since it was built to a Roman design, it was actually a circus. 19th Century: Modern: Hippodrome The hippodrome () was an ancient Grecian stadium for horse racing and chariot racing. The name is derived from the Greek words "hippos" (ἵππος; "horse") and "dromos" (δρόμος; "course"). The term is used in the modern French language and some others, with the meaning of "horse racecourse". Hence, some present-day horse racing tracks
Medieval Greek Lexicographic changes in Medieval Greek influenced by Christianity can be found for instance in words like ἄγγελος ('messenger') > heavenly messenger > angel) or ἀγάπη 'love' > 'altruistic love', which is strictly differentiated from ἔρως , ('physical love'). In everyday usage, some old Greek stems were replaced, for example, the expression for "wine" where the word κρασίον ('mixture') replaced the old Greek οἶνος . The word ὄψον (meaning "something you eat with bread") combined with the suffix -αριον , which was borrowed from the Latin "-arium", became "fish" (ὀψάριον ), which after apheresis, synizesis and the loss of final ν